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132 more coronavirus cases have been reported across Maine

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff

This story will be updated.

Another 132 coronavirus cases have been reported across the state, Maine health officials said Monday.

No new deaths were reported Monday, leaving the statewide death toll at 706.

Monday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 45,926, according to the Maine CDC. That’s up from 45,794 on Sunday

Of those, 35,907 have been confirmed positive, while 10,019 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.

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. For a complete breakdown of the age and sex demographics of cases, hospitalizations and deaths, use the interactive graphic below.

So far, 1,571 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.

Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (4,904), Aroostook (1,296), Cumberland (12,906), Franklin (920), Hancock (944), Kennebec (3,757), Knox (675), Lincoln (594), Oxford (2,283), Penobscot (4,063), Piscataquis (332), Sagadahoc (896), Somerset (1,266), Waldo (611), Washington (726) and York (9753) counties.

For a complete breakdown of the county by county data, use the interactive graphic below.

As of Monday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 28,999,542 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 525,035 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.

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