26 more Mainers have died and another 1,326 coronavirus cases reported across the state

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By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff

Twenty-six more Mainers have died and another 1,326 coronavirus cases were reported across the state, Maine health officials said Wednesday.

Wednesday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 149,543, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from 148,217 on Tuesday. 

Of those, 108,447 have been confirmed positive, while 41,096 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.

The statewide death toll stands at 1,582.

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, 3,490 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 (15,749), Aroostook (7,424), Cumberland (28,734), Franklin (3,799), Hancock (4,508), Kennebec (14,798), Knox (3,261), Lincoln (2,964), Oxford (7,773), Penobscot (17,818), Piscataquis (2,055), Sagadahoc (3,042), Somerset (6,617), Waldo (3,756), Washington (2,815) and York (24,426) counties. Information about where an additional four cases were reported wasn’t immediately available.

As of Wednesday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 57,063,456 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 830,284 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.