Another Mainer dies and 174 more coronavirus cases reported across the state

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff

This story will be updated.

Another Mainer has died as health officials on Monday reported 174 more coronavirus cases across the state.

The number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the past 14 days statewide is 2,437. 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 up from 2,391 on Sunday.

A man in his 80s from York County has succumbed to the virus, bringing the statewide death toll to 725.

Monday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 47,199, according to the Maine CDC. That’s up from 47,025 on Sunday. 

Of those, 36,644 have been confirmed positive, while 10,555 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.

The new case rate statewide Monday was 1.30 cases per 10,000 residents, and the total case rate statewide was 352.65.

Maine’s seven-day average for new coronavirus cases is 184, up from 178 a day ago, up from 166.7 a week ago and up from 182 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, 1,601 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 11.96 patients per 10,000 residents.

Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (5,044), Aroostook (1,317), Cumberland (13,249), Franklin (940), Hancock (962), Kennebec (3,926), Knox (707), Lincoln (609), Oxford (2,334), Penobscot (4,215), Piscataquis (359), Sagadahoc (916), Somerset (1,297), Waldo (641), Washington (740) and York (9,983) counties.

As of Sunday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 29,439,056 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 534,889 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.