420 more coronavirus cases have been reported across Maine
By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff
This story will be updated.
Another 420 coronavirus cases have been reported across the state, Maine health officials said Tuesday.
The number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the past 14 days statewide is 5,689. 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 5,559 on Monday.
No new deaths were reported Tuesday, leaving the statewide death toll at 767.
Tuesday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 57,965, according to the Maine CDC. That’s up from 57,545 on Monday.
Of those, 43,444 have been confirmed positive, while 14,521 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.
The new case rate statewide Tuesday was 3.14 cases per 10,000 residents, and the total case rate statewide was 433.09.
Maine’s seven-day average for new coronavirus cases is 453.3, down from 475.1 a day ago, up from 368.9 a week ago and up from 206.4 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, 1,778 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 Tuesday was 13.28 patients per 10,000 residents.
Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (6,588), Aroostook (1,567), Cumberland (15,444), Franklin (1,156), Hancock (1,202), Kennebec (5,196), Knox (913), Lincoln (784), Oxford (3,006), Penobscot (5,116), Piscataquis (424), Sagadahoc (1,184), Somerset (1,724), Waldo (789), Washington (816) and York (12,053) counties. Information about where an additional case was reported wasn’t immediately available.
An additional 2,617 Mainers have been vaccinated against the coronavirus in the previous 24 hours. As of Tuesday, 569,439 Mainers have received a first dose of the vaccine, while 432,922 have received a final dose.
As of Tuesday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 31,738,706 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 567,729 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.