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An additional 26 cases of the new coronavirus were reported in Maine, health officials said Friday.
Friday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases reported in Maine to 3,757. Of these, 3,357 had been confirmed as positive, while 400 were classified as “probable cases,” according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
New cases were reported in Androscoggin (12), Cumberland (6), Kennebec (1), Sagadahoc (1), Somerset (1) and York (5) counties, according to data from the Maine CDC.
The agency revised Thursday’s cumulative total to 3,731, down from 3,737, meaning there was a net increase of 20 from the previous day’s report, state data shows. As the Maine CDC continues to investigate previously reported cases, it is determined that some were not the case of coronavirus or coronavirus that does not involve Mainers. Those are removed from the state’s cumulative total.
No new deaths were reported Friday, leaving the statewide death toll at 118. Almost all deaths have been in Mainers over the age of 60.
So far, 378 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Of these, 12 people are currently hospitalized, nine in critical care and three in ventilators.
Meanwhile, an additional 20 people have recovered from the coronavirus, bringing the total recovery to 3,259. That means there are 380 active and “probable” cases in the state, which has not changed since Thursday.
The majority of the cases, 2,089, have been in Mainers under the age of 50, while more cases have been reported in women than in men, according to the Maine CDC.
As of Friday, there have been 153,565 negative results out of 158,838 overall. Just under 3 percent of all tests have tested positive, data from the Maine CDC show.
The coronavirus was the most affected in Cumberland County, where 1,990 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 527, 136 and 609 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 (154), Knox (25), Lincoln (31), Oxford (48), Piscataquis (3), Sagadahoc (39) Somerset (33), Waldo (60) and Washington (5) counties. Information on where two other cases were reported was not immediately available on Friday morning.
As of Friday morning, the coronavirus has sickened 4,039,523 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. caused 144,308 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine. .
