Maine CDC reports another 164 coronavirus cases across the state

By Rosemary Lausier, Bangor Daily News Staff

This story will be updated. 

Health officials on Sunday reported 164 more coronavirus cases across the state.

The number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the past 14 days statewide is 5,816. 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 5,867 on Saturday.

No new deaths were reported on Sunday, leaving the statewide death toll at 772.

Sunday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 59,776, according to the Maine CDC. That’s up from 59,612 on Saturday. 

Of those, 44,657 have been confirmed positive, while 15,119 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.

The new case rate statewide Sunday was 1.23 cases per 10,000 residents, and the total case rate statewide was 446.62.

Maine’s seven-day average for new coronavirus cases is 363.3, down from 390.1 a day ago, down from 480.1 a week ago and up from 196.6 a month ago. That average peaked on Jan. 14 at 625.3.

The most cases have been detected in Mainers in their 20s, while Mainers over 80 years old make up the majority of deaths. More cases and deaths have been recorded in women than men. 

So far, 1,811 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. Information about those currently hospitalized was not immediately available.

The total statewide hospitalization rate on Sunday was 13.53 patients per 10,000 residents.

Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (6,891), Aroostook (1,619), Cumberland (15,837), Franklin (1,195), Hancock (1,221), Kennebec (5,467), Knox (948), Lincoln (808), Oxford (3,128), Penobscot (5,247), Piscataquis (434), Sagadahoc (1,224), Somerset (1,812), Waldo (815), Washington (824) and York (12,283) counties. Information about where three additional cases were reported wasn’t immediately available.

As of Sunday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 32,045,569 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 571,922 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.