2 more Mainers have died and another 1,524 coronavirus cases reported across the state

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By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff

Two more Mainers have died and another 1,524 coronavirus cases reported across the state, Maine health officials said Wednesday.

Wednesday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 169,998, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from 168,474 on Tuesday. 

Of those, 124,858 have been confirmed positive, while 45,140 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.

The statewide death toll stands at 1,716.

The most cases have been detected in Mainers younger than 20, while Mainers over 80 years old account for the largest portion of deaths. More cases have been recorded in women and more deaths in men.

So far, 3,833 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 (17,228), Aroostook (8,222), Cumberland (34,392), Franklin (4,311), Hancock (4,998), Kennebec (16,403), Knox (4,037), Lincoln (3,579), Oxford (8,528), Penobscot (19,343), Piscataquis (2,186), Sagadahoc (3,506), Somerset (7,226), Waldo (4,232), Washington (3,048) and York (28,758) counties. Information about where an additional case was reported wasn’t immediately available.

As of Wednesday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 72,178,003 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 872,126 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.