Another 238 new coronavirus cases have been reported in the state, Maine health officials said Thursday.
Thursday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 11,265, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. It is above 11,027 on Wednesday.
Of those, 10,105 were positively confirmed, while 1,160 were classified as “potential cases,” the Maine CDC reported.
Androskogin (21), Aerostock (12), Cumberland (42), Franklin (4), Hancock (13), Canebeck (20), Knox (4), Lincoln (2), Ox Xford (8), Penobskot (44), Piscaquis (1), Sagadohok (6), Somerset (7), Waldo (3), Washington (2) and York (47) counties, state data show. Information on where the additional two cases were reported was not immediately available.
The seven-day average for new coronavirus cases is 221.4, up from 217.4 a day ago, 189.9 a week ago and 44 a month ago.
No new deaths were reported on Thursday, leaving the statewide death toll at 1,190. This is the first time in 10 days that Maine has not seen at least one new death. Almost all of the deaths occurred in miners over 60 years of age.
Health officials have warned miners that a “strong and widespread” community transition is being witnessed across the state. Each county is seeing a higher community transmission, defined by the Maine CDC as a case rate of 16 or more cases per 10,000 people.
There are two criteria for establishing a community transmission: at least 10 confirmed cases and at least 25 percent of them are not connected to either known cases or travel.
There are 108 cases of coronavirus among more than 30,000 students, faculty and staff at Maine System University, according to spokesman Dan Demeritt.
The University of Maine in Orono has 94 cases with six new cases. Three cases at the University of Maine at Augusta Gusta; Four cases at the University of Maine Farmington; A case at the University of Maine at Machiavelli; Three cases at the University of Maine at Prisk Isle; And three cases at Southern Maine University.
The only campuses with no active cases of coronavirus are the University of Maine at Fort Kent and the University of Maine Law School.
Fifty students were on solitude or in quarantine on the system’s campus over the Thanksgiving holiday, DeMart said. About 6,300 safe departure tests were conducted by the university system prior to the Thanksgiving break in which 40 asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 were identified as of Wednesday morning.
The disease caused by the new coronavirus, so far, has at some point 687 major people hospitalized with COVID-19. Information about those currently hospitalized was not immediately available on Thursday.
Meanwhile, more than 199 people have recovered from the coronavirus, bringing the total recovery to 8,791. That means there are 2,284 active confirmations and “potential” cases in the state, up from 2,245 on Wednesday.
The majority of cases – 6,719 – occurred in minors under the age of 50, while more cases were reported in women than men, the Maine CDC said.
As of Wednesday, there have been 847,706 negative test results out of a total of 861,445. More than 1.5 percent of all tests came back positive, the most recently available Maine CDC data shows.
The most severe impact was caused by coronavirus in Cumberland, where 7,72828 cases were reported and where most of the virus deaths were concentrated – Other cases have been reported in Androskogin (1,454), Aerostock (128), Franklin (208), Hancock (236), Canebeck (756), Knox (203), Lincoln (151), Oxford (325), Penobskot (802). , Piscoquis (41), Sagadahawk (149), Somerset (434), Woldo (225), Washington (189) and York (2,229). Information on where the additional seven cases were reported was not immediately available.
As of Thursday afternoon, the coronavirus had spread to all 50 states, including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. In the Virgin Islands, 12,831,168 people fell ill, and 262,849 people died, according to Johns Hopkins University. Medicine.
