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21 more Mainers have died and another 1,173 coronavirus cases reported since Thanksgiving

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By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff

Twenty-one more Mainers have died and another 1,172 coronavirus cases have been reported across the state since Thanksgiving, Maine health officials said Tuesday.

Tuesday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 119,662, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from 118,489 on Thursday

Of those, 85,510 have been confirmed positive, while 34,152 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.

The statewide death toll stands at 1,324.

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 have been recorded in women and more deaths in men.

So far, 3,119 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 (12,961), Aroostook (5,235), Cumberland (24,267), Franklin (2,967), Hancock (3,543), Kennebec (11,671), Knox (2,373), Lincoln (2,148), Oxford (6,339), Penobscot (13,879), Piscataquis (1,576), Sagadahoc (2,418), Somerset (5,273), Waldo (2,849), Washington (2,354) and York (19,808) counties. Information about where an additional case was reported wasn’t immediately available.

As of Tuesday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 48,440,107 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 778,653 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.

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