11 more Mainers die as another 662 coronavirus cases are reported across the state

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff

This story will be updated.

Another 11 Mainers have died as health officials on Tuesday reported 662 more coronavirus cases across the state.

An Aroostook County resident, five Cumberland County residents, two Hancock County residents, two Kennebec County residents and a Penobscot County resident have succumbed to the virus, bringing the statewide death toll to 558.

Tuesday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 37,708, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from 37,046 on Monday. 

Of those, 30,496 have been confirmed positive, while 7,212 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.

The most cases have been detected in Mainers in their 20s, while Mainers over 80 years old make up the majority of deaths. More cases and deaths have been recorded in women than men.

So far, 1,357 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.

Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (4,154), Aroostook (1,105), Cumberland (10,776), Franklin (712), Hancock (752), Kennebec (2,958), Knox (560), Lincoln (445), Oxford (1,814), Penobscot (3,273), Piscataquis (187), Sagadahoc (729), Somerset (1,049), Waldo (487), Washington (587) and York (8,118) counties.

As of Tuesday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 25,235,095 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 420,439 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.