4 more Mainers have died and another 603 coronavirus cases reported across the state

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By Christoper Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff

Four more Mainers have died as health officials on Saturday reported another 603 coronavirus cases across the state.

Saturday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 87,189, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from 86,586 on Friday. 

Of those, 62,365 have been confirmed positive, while 24,824 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.

The statewide death toll stands at 1,013.

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, 2,454 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 (9,488), Aroostook (3,160), Cumberland (19,827), Franklin (1,759), Hancock (2,106), Kennebec (8,118), Knox (1,576), Lincoln (1,504), Oxford (4,289), Penobscot (9,980), Piscataquis (1,033), Sagadahoc (1,690), Somerset (3,340), Waldo (2,008), Washington (1,307) and York (16,004) counties.

As of Saturday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 42,855,421 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 687,096 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.