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Eight other cases of the new coronavirus have been detected in Maine, health officials said Monday. It is the smallest daily increase in coronavirus cases recorded in the last month.
There have now been 3,423 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 3,415 on Sunday.
Of these, 2,787 have been confirmed as positive, while 359 are likely positive, according to the CDC of Maine.
New cases were counted in Cumberland (5), Hancock (1), Penobscot (2) and Waldo (2) counties. The change in data at the county level may vary the reporting of new cases as the Maine CDC continues to investigate cases.
No new deaths were reported Monday, leaving the statewide death toll at 109. Almost all deaths have been in Mainers over the age of 60.
So far, 359 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Of these, 21 people are currently hospitalized, nine in critical care and four on ventilators.
Meanwhile, 15 more people have recovered from the coronavirus, bringing the total recoveries to 2,787. That means there are 527 probable and active cases in the state, up from 539 on Sunday.
Most cases, 1,805, 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 112,180 negative results out of 116,891 in total. Just over 3.5 percent of all tests have tested positive, data from the Maine CDC show.
The coronavirus has been the most affected in Cumberland County, where 1,810 cases have been confirmed and where the majority of virus deaths were concentrated, 64. It is one of the four counties: the others are Androscoggin, Penobscot and York, with 495, 118 and 549 cases, respectively, where “community transmission” has been confirmed, according to the CDC of Maine.
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 (18), Kennebec (145), Knox (25), Lincoln (25), Oxford (42), Piscataquis (4), Sagadahoc (34) , Somerset (30), Waldo (58) and Washington (3) counties. Information on where two other cases were detected was not immediately available Monday morning.
As of Monday morning, the coronavirus has sickened 2,897,613 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands, and has caused 130,007 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine. .
