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Two other Mainers died when 18 cases of the new coronavirus were detected in Maine, health officials said Sunday.
There have now been 3,415 cases in all Maine counties since the outbreak began here in March, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s over 3,397 on Saturday.
Of those, 3,028 have been confirmed as positive, while 387 are likely positive, according to the Maine CDC.
New cases were counted in Lincoln (1), Piscataquis (1), Androscoggin (2), Cumberland (12), Penobscot (2) and York (1) counties.
The statewide death toll is now 109.
As of Sunday, 359 Mainers had been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Of these, 25 people are currently hospitalized, nine in critical condition and three with ventilators.
Meanwhile, 21 more people have recovered from the coronavirus, bringing the total recoveries to 2,772. That means there are 534 probable and active cases in the state, up from 539 on Saturday.
Most cases, 1,866, 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 Sunday, there have been 110,558 negative results out of 115,258 overall. Just under 4 percent of all tests have tested positive, data from the Maine CDC show.
The coronavirus has been the most affected in Cumberland County, where 1,805 cases have been confirmed and the majority of virus deaths, 64, have been concentrated. It is one of four counties: the others are Androscoggin, Penobscot and York, with 496, 116 and 550 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 detected in Aroostook (24), Franklin (40), Hancock (17), Kennebec (145), Knox (25), Lincoln (25), Oxford (42), Piscataquis (4), Sagadahoc (34) , Somerset (30), Waldo (56) and Washington (3) counties. Information on where three other cases were detected was not immediately available on Sunday morning.
As of Sunday morning, the coronavirus has sickened 2,839,917 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. caused 129,676 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine. .
