128 more coronavirus cases have been reported in Maine
By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff
This story will be updated.
Another 128 coronavirus cases have been reported across Maine, health officials said Monday.
The number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the past 14 days statewide is 2,085. This is an estimation of the current number of active cases in the state, as the Maine CDC is no longer tracking recoveries for all patients. That’s down from 2,105 on Sunday.
No new deaths were reported Monday, leaving the statewide death toll at 703.
Monday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 44,762, according to the Maine CDC. That’s up from 44,634 on Sunday.
Of those, 35,230 have been confirmed positive, while 9,532 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.
The new case rate statewide Monday was 0.96 cases per 10,000 residents, and the total case rate statewide was 334.44.
Maine’s seven-day average for new coronavirus cases is 168.7, up from 164.3 a day ago, up from 131.7 a week ago and down from 367.9 a month ago. That average peaked on Jan. 14 at 625.3.
The most cases have been detected in Mainers in their 20s, while Mainers over 80 years old make up the majority of deaths. More cases and deaths have been recorded in women than men.
So far, 1,529 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. Information about those who are currently hospitalized wasn’t immediately available.
The total statewide hospitalization rate on Monday was 11.42 patients per 10,000 residents.
Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (4,826), Aroostook (1,278), Cumberland (12,563), Franklin (904), Hancock (911), Kennebec (3,640), Knox (652), Lincoln (583), Oxford (2,220), Penobscot (3,926), Piscataquis (286), Sagadahoc (887), Somerset (1,242), Waldo (587), Washington (723) and York (9,534) counties.
An additional 1,251 Mainers have been vaccinated against the coronavirus in the previous 24 hours. As of Monday, 228,274 Mainers have received a first dose of the vaccine, while 121,566 have received two doses.
As of Monday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 28,605,937 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as caused 513,092 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.