18 more Mainers have died and another 1,402 coronavirus cases reported across the state

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By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff

Eighteen more Mainers have died and another 1,402 coronavirus cases reported across the state, Maine health officials said Thursday.

Thursday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 178,501, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from 177,099 on Wednesday. 

Of those, 131,530 have been confirmed positive, while 46,971 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.

The statewide death toll stands at 1,777.

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, 3,979 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 (17,967), Aroostook (8,525), Cumberland (37,075), Franklin (4,416), Hancock (5,206), Kennebec (17,185), Knox (4,251), Lincoln (3,771), Oxford (8,817), Penobscot (20,090), Piscataquis (2,254), Sagadahoc (3,718), Somerset (7,503), Waldo (4,415), Washington (3,139) and York (30,169) counties.

As of Thursday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 75,681,309 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 894,316 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.