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Another Mainer dies and 192 more coronavirus cases have been reported across the state

By Rosemary Lausier, Bangor Daily News Staff

This story will be updated. 

Another Mainer has died as health officials on Sunday reported 192 more coronavirus cases across the state.

The statewide death toll now stands at 802.

Sunday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 65,715, according to the Maine CDC. That’s up from 65,523 on Saturday. 

Of those, 48,348 have been confirmed positive, while 17,367 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. 

So far, 1,933 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. Information about those currently hospitalized was not immediately available.

Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (7,963), Aroostook (1,790), Cumberland (16,851), Franklin (1,305), Hancock (1,296), Kennebec (6,203), Knox (1,097), Lincoln (996), Oxford (3,482), Penobscot (5,803), Piscataquis (510), Sagadahoc (1,394), Somerset (2,092), Waldo (961), Washington (855) and York (13,117) counties.

As of Sunday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 32,924,375 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 585,708 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.

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