145 more coronavirus cases have been reported across Maine

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By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff

Another 145 coronavirus cases have been reported across the state, Maine health officials said Friday.

Friday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 71,141, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from 70,996 on Thursday. 

Of those, 51,828 have been confirmed positive, while 19,313 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.

No new deaths were reported Friday, leaving the statewide death toll at 900.

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 and deaths have been recorded in women than men.

So far, 2,159 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 (8,537), Aroostook (2,019), Cumberland (17,691), Franklin (1,426), Hancock (1,443), Kennebec (6,783), Knox (1,210), Lincoln (1,132), Oxford (3,718), Penobscot (6,594), Piscataquis (617), Sagadahoc (1,491), Somerset (2,358), Waldo (1,219), Washington (972) and York (13,923) counties. Information about where an additional eight cases were reported wasn’t immediately available.

As of Friday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 35,443,290 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 615,341 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.