Another Mainer has died and 185 more coronavirus cases reported across the state

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By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff

Another Mainer has died as health officials on Friday reported 185 more coronavirus cases across the state.

Friday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 73,454, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from 73,269 on Thursday. 

Of those, 53,292 have been confirmed positive, while 20,162 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.

The statewide death toll stands at 922.

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, 2,232 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 (8,660), Aroostook (2,159), Cumberland (18,036), Franklin (1,461), Hancock (1,530), Kennebec (6,899), Knox (1,272), Lincoln (1,196), Oxford (3,810), Penobscot (7,048), Piscataquis (668), Sagadahoc (1,525), Somerset (2,458), Waldo (1,391), Washington (1,029) and York (14,312) counties.

As of Friday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 37,296,811 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 625,183 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.