17 more Mainers have died and another 1,433 coronavirus cases reported since Christmas Eve

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By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff

Seventeen more Mainers have died and another 1,433 coronavirus cases were reported across the state since Christmas Eve, Maine health officials said Tuesday.

Tuesday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 143,213, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from 141,780 on Friday. 

Of those, 103,256 have been confirmed positive, while 39,957 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.

The statewide death toll stands at 1,492.

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, 3,393 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 (15,196), Aroostook (7,101), Cumberland (27,681), Franklin (3,648), Hancock (4,304), Kennebec (14,116), Knox (3,020), Lincoln (2,739), Oxford (7,500), Penobscot (17,081), Piscataquis (1,974), Sagadahoc (2,932), Somerset (6,339), Waldo (3,490), Washington (2,740) and York (23,346) counties. Information about where an additional six cases were reported wasn’t immediately available.

As of Tuesday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 52,794,843 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 818,371 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.