3 more Mainers die and 211 coronavirus cases are reported across the state

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff

This story will be updated.

Another three Mainers have died as health officials on Tuesday reported 211 more coronavirus cases across the state.

The statewide death toll stands at 639.

Tuesday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 41,630, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from 41,419 on Monday. 

Of those, 33,301 have been confirmed positive, while 8,239 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, 1,450 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. Information about those who are currently hospitalized wasn’t immediately available.

Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (4,516), Aroostook (1,197), Cumberland (11,756), Franklin (844), Hancock (823), Kennebec (3,385), Knox (597), Lincoln (521), Oxford (2,068), Penobscot (3,594, Piscataquis (234), Sagadahoc (838), Somerset (1,167), Waldo (553), Washington (682) and York (8,855) counties.

As of Tuesday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 27,098,366 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 465,083 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.