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18 other cases of the new coronavirus were reported in Maine, health officials said Monday.
Monday’s count brings the total number of reported coronavirus cases in Maine to 3,832, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s over 3,814 on Sunday.
Of them, 3,422 had been confirmed as positive, while 410 were classified as “probable cases,” reports the Maine CDC.
New cases were reported in Androscoggin (9), Cumberland (5), Kennebec (1), and York (3) counties, state data shows.
No new deaths were reported Monday, leaving the statewide death toll at 119. Almost all deaths have been in Mainers over the age of 60.
So far, 383 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Of these, 13 people are currently hospitalized, eight in critical care and three on ventilators.
Meanwhile, eight more people have recovered from the coronavirus, bringing the total recovery to 3,292. That means there are 421 active and “probable” cases in the state, which rose from 411 on Sunday.
Most cases – 2,134 – 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 Monday, there have been 160,371 negative results out of 165,752 overall. Just under 3 percent of all tests have tested positive, data from the Maine CDC show.
The coronavirus has been the most affected in Cumberland County, where 2,016 cases have been reported and where the majority of virus deaths, 68, have been concentrated. It is one of four counties: the others are Androscoggin, Penobscot and York, with 543, 139 and 625 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 them are not connected to known cases or travel. That second condition has not yet been “met” in other counties.
Other cases have been reported in Aroostook (31), Franklin (45), Hancock (19), Kennebec (159), Knox (25), Lincoln (33), Oxford (49), Piscataquis (3), Sagadahoc (43) Somerset (34), Waldo (60) and Washington (7) counties. Information on where another case was reported was not immediately available Monday morning.
As of Monday morning, the coronavirus has sickened 4,238,500 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands, and has caused 146,968 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine. .
Correction: An earlier version of this report incorrectly expressed Monday’s cumulative coronavirus total.
