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A Mainer died when 38 more cases of the coronavirus were detected in Maine, health officials said Friday.
According to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been 3,636 cases in all Maine counties since the outbreak began here in March. That’s over 3,598 on Thursday.
Of those, 3,239 have been confirmed as positive, while 397 are likely positive, according to the Maine CDC.
New cases were counted in Androscoggin (2), Aroostook (1), Cumberland (23), Franklin (1), Kennebec (1), Knox (1), Lincoln (2), Oxford (1), Somerset (1) Penobscot (1) and York (4) counties. Daily changes in county-level data may vary from new case reports as the Maine CDC continues to investigate cases.
The death toll is now 115. Almost all deaths have been in Mainers over the age of 60. The death announced Friday was an 80-year-old woman from Penobscot County.
Meanwhile, an additional 20 people have recovered from the coronavirus, bringing the total recoveries to 3,114. That means there are 407 active and probable cases in the state, up from 390 on Thursday.
Our charts that track the number of active cases, recoveries and deaths both statewide and by county are updated daily.
So far, 375 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Of these, 12 people have been hospitalized, 11 in critical care and five in ventilators.
Most cases, 2,017, have been in Mainers under the age of 50, while more cases have been reported in women than men, according to the Maine CDC.
As of Friday, there have been 136,340 negative results out of 141,394 overall. Just over 3 percent of all tests have tested positive, according to data from the Maine CDC.
The coronavirus was the most affected in Cumberland County, where 1,934 cases were confirmed and where the majority of virus deaths were concentrated, 67. It is one of the four counties: the others are Androscoggin, Penobscot and York, with 509 , 129, and 588 cases, respectively, where “community transmission” has been confirmed, according to the CDC of Maine.
There are two criteria for establishing community transmission: at least 10 confirmed cases and that at least 25 percent of them are not connected to known cases or travel. That second condition has not yet been “met” in other counties.
Other cases have been detected in Aroostook (26), Franklin (42), Hancock (19), Kennebec (148), Knox (25), Lincoln (29), Oxford (49), Piscataquis (4), Sagadahoc (34) Somerset (32), Waldo (60) and Washington (5) counties. Information on where three other cases were detected was not immediately available on Friday morning.
As of Friday morning, the coronavirus has sickened 3,576,593 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands, and has caused 138,362 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine. .
