23 more Mainers have died and another 1,414 coronavirus cases reported across the state – Bangor Daily News

Twenty-threemore Mainers have died and another 1,414coronavirus cases reported across the state, Maine health officials said Friday.

Fridays report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 179,915,according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Thats up from 178,501 on Thursday.

Of those, 132,560have been confirmed positive, while 47.355were classified as probable cases, the Maine CDC reported.

Eight women and 19 men have succumbed to the virus, bringing the statewide death toll to 1,800.

Three were from Androscoggin County, one from Aroostook County, three from Cumberland County, one from Hancock County, three from Kennebec County, one from Lincoln County, three from Oxford County, three from Penobscot County, one from Piscataquis County, one from Somerset County, one from Waldo County and two from York County.

Of those, seven were 80 or older, four were in their 70s, six in their 60s, five in their 50s and one in their 20s.

The number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the past 14 days statewide is 14,224. 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. Thats up from 14,177 on Thursday.

The new case rate statewide Friday was 10.56 cases per 10,000 residents, and the total case rate statewide was 1,344.25.

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, 4,000 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. Of those, 355 are currently hospitalized, with 82 in critical care and 36 on a ventilator. Overall, 47 out of 376 critical care beds and 252 out of 328 ventilators are available.

The total statewide hospitalization rate on Friday was 29.89 patients per 10,000 residents.

Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (18,097), Aroostook (8,561), Cumberland (37,524), Franklin (4,433), Hancock (5,282), Kennebec (17,289), Knox (4,267), Lincoln (3,795), Oxford (8,838), Penobscot (20,231), Piscataquis (2,265), Sagadahoc (3,743), Somerset (7,583), Waldo (4,427), Washington (3,161) and York (30,418) counties. Information about where an additional case was reported wasnt immediately available.

An additional 1,498 vaccine doses were administered in the previous 24 hours. As of Friday, 978,462 Mainers are fully vaccinated, or about 76.4 percent of eligible Mainers, according to the Maine CDC.

As of Friday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 756,030,403 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 897,885 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.

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