Maine sees record single-day increase in COVID-19 infections for 2nd straight day

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By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff

Maine passed another grim milestone on Thursday when for the second straight day COVID-19 infections hit a record 925.

Thursday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 89,989, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from 89,064 on Wednesday. 

Of those, 64,237 have been confirmed positive, while 25,752 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.

No new deaths were reported Thursday, leaving the statewide death toll standing at 1,022.

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, 2,487 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 (9,689), Aroostook (3,304), Cumberland (20,058), Franklin (1,860), Hancock (2,235), Kennebec (8,461), Knox (1,654), Lincoln (1,590), Oxford (4,444), Penobscot (10,394), Piscataquis (1,136), Sagadahoc (1,755), Somerset (3,579), Waldo (2,084), Washington (1,443) and York (16,300) counties. Information about where an additional three cases were reported wasn’t immediately available.

As of Thursday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 43,350,990 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 695,123 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.