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33 other cases of the new coronavirus were reported in Maine, health officials said Saturday.
Saturday’s tally brings Maine’s reported total number of coronavirus cases to 3,790. Of them, 3,387 had been confirmed as positive, while 403 were classified as “probable cases,” according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
New cases were reported in Androscoggin (5), Cumberland (14), Kennebec (3), Lincoln (2), Penobscot (3), Sagadahoc (1), Somerset (1), and York (5) data. from the Maine CDC.
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.
A new death was reported Saturday, bringing the number of deaths statewide to 119. Almost all deaths have been in Mainers over the age of 60.
So far, 379 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 two on ventilators.
Meanwhile, 22 more people have recovered from the coronavirus, bringing the total recoveries to 3,281. That means there are 390 active and “probable” cases in the state, up from 380 on Friday.
Most cases, 2,111, 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 Saturday, there were 156,310 negative results out of 161,630 overall. Just over 3 percent of all tests have tested positive, according to data from the Maine CDC.
The coronavirus was the most affected in Cumberland County, where 2,004 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 532, 139 and 614 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 (157), Knox (25), Lincoln (33), Oxford (48), Piscataquis (3), Sagadahoc (40) , Somerset (34), Waldo (60) and Washington (5) counties. Information on where another case was reported was not immediately available Saturday morning.
As of Saturday morning, the coronavirus has sickened 4,114,817 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands, and has caused 145,556 deaths , according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine. .
