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29 other cases of the coronavirus have been reported in Maine, health officials said Wednesday.
Wednesday’s count brings the total number of coronavirus cases reported in Maine to 3,866. Of these, 3,457 have been confirmed as positive, while 409 were classified as “probable cases,” according to reports from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
New cases were reported in Androscoggin (1), Cumberland (13), Hancock (5), Kennebec (1), Oxford (2), Penobscot (1), Waldo (2) and York (4) counties, as shown state data.
The agency revised Tuesday’s cumulative total to 3,837, down from 3,838, meaning there was a net increase of 28 from the previous day’s report, state data shows. As the CDC of Maine continues to investigate previously reported cases, it is determined that some were not the coronavirus or coronavirus cases that do not involve Mainers. Those are removed from the state’s cumulative total.
No new deaths were reported Wednesday, leaving the statewide death toll at 121. Almost all deaths have been in Mainers over the age of 60.
So far, 385 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Of these, 11 people are currently hospitalized, eight in critical care and five on ventilators.
Meanwhile, 17 more people have recovered from the coronavirus, bringing total recoveries to 3,336. That means there are 409 active and “probable” cases in the state, which is more than 398 on Tuesday.
Most cases – 2,159 – 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 Wednesday, there were 164,981 negative results out of 170,419 overall. Just under 3 percent of all tests have tested positive, the latest data from the Maine CDC show.
The coronavirus has been the most affected in Cumberland County, where 2,029 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 545, 141 and 633 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 (23), Kennebec (160), Knox (25), Lincoln (33), Oxford (51), Piscataquis (3), Sagadahoc (43) Somerset (34), Waldo (62) and Washington (7) counties. Information on where another case was reported was not immediately available Wednesday morning.
As of Wednesday morning, the coronavirus has sickened 4,375,271 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands, in addition to causing 149,684 deaths. , according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine. .
