Another 43 coronavirus cases reported in Maine – Bangor Daily News

Another 43 coronavirus cases have been reported in Maine, health officials said Thursday.

Thursdays report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 5,215. Of those, 4,677 have been confirmed positive, while 538 were classified as probable cases, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

The agency revised Wednesdays cumulative total to 5,172, up from 5,171, meaning there was an increase of 44 over the previous days report, state data show. 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.

New cases were reported in Androscoggin (5), Aroostook (1), Cumberland (11), Kennebec (2), Lincoln (1), Oxford (3), Penobscot (1) and York (19) counties, state data show.

The seven-day average for new coronavirus cases has risen to 38, up from 30.1 a week ago and 21.7 a month ago.

No new deaths were reported Thursday, leaving the statewide death toll at 140. Nearly all deaths have been in Mainers over age 60.

So far, 442 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. Of those, 14 people are currently hospitalized, with one in critical care.

Meanwhile, 33 more people have recovered from the coronavirus, bringing total recoveries to 4,478. That means there are 597 active confirmed and probable cases in the state, which is up from 586 on Wednesday.

A majority of the cases 3,017 have been in Mainers under age 50, while more cases have been reported in women than men, according to the Maine CDC.

As of Thursday, there have been 402,382 negative test results out of 409,669 overall. About 1.5 percent of all tests have come back positive, Maine CDC data show.

The coronavirus has hit hardest in Cumberland County, where 2,301 cases have been reported and where the bulk of virus deaths 70 have been concentrated. It is one of four counties the others are Androscoggin, Penobscot and York, with 698, 253 and 1,133 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 (44), Franklin (60), Hancock (53), Kennebec (209), Knox (36), Lincoln (42), Oxford (137), Piscataquis (9), Sagadahoc (65), Somerset (85), Waldo (73) and Washington (16) counties.

As of Thursday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 6,945,987 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 202,247 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.

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