1 more Mainer dies as 116 new coronavirus cases reported across the state
By Lynn Fort, Bangor Daily News Staff
Another Mainer has died as health officials on Sunday reported another 116 coronavirus cases across the state.
The number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the past 14 days statewide is 2,985. 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 3,113 on Saturday.
Another person has succumbed to the virus, bringing the statewide death toll to 820.
Sunday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 66,979, according to the Maine CDC. That’s up from 66,863 on Saturday.
Of those, 49,116 have been confirmed positive, while 17,863 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.
The new case rate statewide Sunday was 0.87 cases per 10,000 residents, and the total case rate statewide was 500.44.
Maine’s seven-day average for new coronavirus cases is 182.4, down from 193.7 a day ago, down from 245.9 a week ago and down from 389.7 a month ago.
The most cases have been detected in Mainers younger than 20, 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, 1,978 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.
The total statewide hospitalization rate on Sunday was 14.78 patients per 10,000 residents.
Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (8,171), Aroostook (1,821), Cumberland (17,022), Franklin (1,324), Hancock (1,327), Kennebec (6,378), Knox (1,110), Lincoln (1,036), Oxford (3,521), Penobscot (6,015), Piscataquis (541), Sagadahoc (1,443), Somerset (2,158), Waldo (998), Washington (865) and York (13,242) counties. Information about seven cases was not available on Sunday morning.
As of Sunday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 33,105,228 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 589,703 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.