2 more Mainers have died and another 35 coronavirus cases reported across the state

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By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff

Two more Mainers have died as health officials on Friday reported another 35 coronavirus cases across the state.

The statewide death toll stands at 858.

Friday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 68,924, according to the Maine CDC. That’s up from 68,889 on Thursday. 

Of those, 50,416 have been confirmed positive, while 18,508 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.

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, 2,071 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 (8,396), Aroostook (1,897), Cumberland (17,236), Franklin (1,379), Hancock (1,375), Kennebec (6,600), Knox (1,145), Lincoln (1,079), Oxford (3,691), Penobscot (6,335), Piscataquis (587), Sagadahoc (1,473), Somerset (2,283), Waldo (1,049), Washington (941) and York (13,508) counties.

As of Friday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 33,590,549 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 603,178 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.