13 more coronavirus cases have been reported across Maine

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By Rosemary Lausier, Bangor Daily News Staff

Another 13 coronavirus cases have been reported across the state, Maine health officials said Sunday.

Sunday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 68,976, according to the Maine CDC. That’s up from 68,963 on Saturday. 

Of those, 50,457 have been confirmed positive, while 18,519 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.

No new deaths were reported Sunday, leaving the statewide death toll standing at 858.

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, 2,072 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 (8,402), Aroostook (1,900), Cumberland (17,243), Franklin (1,382), Hancock (1,376), Kennebec (6,605), Knox (1,145), Lincoln (1,079), Oxford (3,645), Penobscot (6,342), Piscataquis (587), Sagadahoc (1,474), Somerset (2,285), Waldo (1,049), Washington (941) and York (13,521) counties.

As of Sunday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 33,622,105 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 603,891 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.