4 more Mainers have died and another 876 coronavirus cases reported across the state

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By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff

Four more Mainers have died and another 876 coronavirus cases have been reported across the state, Maine health officials said Saturday.

Saturday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 123,118, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from 122,242 on Friday. 

Of those, 87,973 have been confirmed positive, while 35,145 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.

The statewide death toll stands at 1,336.

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, 3,154 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 (13,318), Aroostook (5,632), Cumberland (24,717), Franklin (3,046), Hancock (3,727), Kennebec (12,056), Knox (2,428), Lincoln (2,202), Oxford (6,451), Penobscot (14,340), Piscataquis (1,643), Sagadahoc (3,490), Somerset (5,424), Waldo (2,922), Washington (2,415) and York (20,306) counties. Information about where an additional case was reported wasn’t immediately available.

As of Saturday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 48,994,565 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 787,701 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.