27 new coronavirus cases have been reported in Maine – Bangor Daily News

Another 27 new coronavirus cases have been reported in Maine, health officials said Monday.

Mondays report brings the total coronavirus cases in Maine to 4,197. Of those, 3,767 have been confirmed positive, while 430 were classified as probable cases, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

New cases were reported in Androscoggin (3), Cumberland (4), Penobscot (13), York (4) counties, Oxford (1), Piscataquis (1), Waldo (1) and Washington (1) state data show.

The agency revised Sundays cumulative total to 4,170, up from 4,168. As the Maine CDC continues to investigate previously reported cases, some are determined to have not been the coronavirus, or coronavirus cases not involving Mainers. Those are removed from the states cumulative total.

No new deaths were reported Monday, leaving the statewide death toll at 127. Nearly all deaths have been in Mainers over age 60.

So far, 399 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. Of those, 10 people are currently hospitalized, with three in critical care and one on a ventilator.

Meanwhile, 14 more people have recovered from the coronavirus, bringing total recoveries to 3,638. That means there are 432 active and probable cases in the state, which is up from 417 on Sunday.

A majority of the cases 2,357 have been in Mainers under age 50, while more cases have been reported in women than men, according to the Maine CDC.

As of Monday, there have been 215,426 negative test results out of 221,384 overall. Just over 2.3 percent of all tests have come back positive, Maine CDC data show.

The coronavirus has hit hardest in Cumberland County, where 2,130 cases have been reported and where the bulk of virus deaths 69 have been concentrated. It is one of four counties the others are Androscoggin, Penobscot and York, with 580, 191 and 693 cases, respectively where community transmission has been confirmed, according to the Maine CDC.

There are two criteria for establishing community transmission: at least 10 confirmed cases and that at least 25 percent of those are not connected to either known cases or travel. That second condition has not yet been satisfied in other counties.

Other cases have been reported in Aroostook (33), Franklin (47), Hancock (40), Kennebec (172), Knox (28), Lincoln (35), Oxford (59), Piscataquis (12), Sagadahoc (58), Somerset (40), Waldo (63) and Washington (15) counties.

As of Monday morning, the coronavirus has sickened 5,406,625 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 170,005 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.

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