4 more Mainers die as another 340 coronavirus cases are reported across the state

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff

This story will be updated.

Another four Mainers have died as health officials on Sunday reported 340 more coronavirus cases across the state.

Sunday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 33,559, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from 33,219 on Saturday.

Of those, 27,511 have been confirmed positive, while 6,048 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.

The statewide toll now stands at 511. Nearly all deaths have been in Mainers over age 60.

So far, 1,244 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. Information about those currently hospitalized wasn’t immediately available.

A majority of the cases — 19,972 — have been in Mainers under age 50, while more cases have been reported in women than men, according to the Maine CDC. 

As of Friday, there have been 1,328,905 negative test results out of 1,368,816 overall. Nearly 2.9 percent of all tests have come back positive, the most recently available Maine CDC data show.

The coronavirus has hit hardest in Cumberland County, where 9,794 cases have been reported and where the bulk of virus deaths — 126 — have been concentrated. Other cases have been reported in Androscoggin (3,612), Aroostook (1,024), Franklin (564), Hancock (683), Kennebec (2,606), Knox (485), Lincoln (393), Oxford (1,560), Penobscot (2,894), Piscataquis (163), Sagadahoc (614), Somerset (942), Waldo (428), Washington (494) and York (7,296) counties. Information about where an additional three cases were reported wasn’t immediately available.

As of Sunday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 23,760,080 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as caused 395,851 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.