27 more Mainers have died and another 1,286 coronavirus cases reported across the state
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By Rosemary Lausier, Bangor Daily News Staff
Twenty-seven more Mainers have died and another 1,286 coronavirus cases were reported across the state, Maine health officials said Thursday.
Thursday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 134,170, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from 132,884 on Wednesday.
Of those, 96,164 have been confirmed positive, while 38,006 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.
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The statewide death toll now stands at 1,405.
The number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the past 14 days statewide is 7,337. This is an estimation of the current number of active cases in the state, as the Maine CDC is no longer tracking recoveries for all patients. That’s down from 12,284 on Wednesday.
The new case rate statewide Thursday was 9.61 cases per 10,000 residents, and the total case rate statewide was 1002.46.
Maine’s seven-day average for new coronavirus cases is 1,047.4, up from 1,072.1 on Thursday, up from 769.6 a week ago and up from 509.3 a month ago.
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, 3,276 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. Additional information about those hospitalizations was not immediately available.
The total statewide hospitalization rate on Thursday was 24.48 patients per 10,000 residents.
Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (14,454), Aroostook (6,623), Cumberland (26,341), Franklin (3,406), Hancock (4,020), Kennebec (13,162), Knox (2,667), Lincoln (2,438), Oxford (7,063), Penobscot (15,910), Piscataquis (1,844), Sagadahoc (2,718), Somerset (5,895), Waldo (3,227), Washington (2,625) and York (21,774) counties. Information about where an additional three cases were reported wasn’t immediately available.
An additional 5,841 vaccine doses were administered in the previous 24 hours. As of Thursday, 945,783 Mainers are fully vaccinated, or about 73.85 percent of eligible Mainers, according to the Maine CDC.
As of Thursday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 50,374,554 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 802,511 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.