17 more Mainers have died and another 164 coronavirus cases reported across the state

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff

This story will be updated.

Another 17 Mainers have died as health officials on Wednesday reported 164 more coronavirus cases across the state.

The statewide death toll now stands at 677.

Wednesday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 43,900, according to the Maine CDC. That’s up from 43,736 on Tuesday. 

Of those, 34,783 have been confirmed positive, while 9,177 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, 1,515 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 (4,733), Aroostook (1,260), Cumberland (12,329), Franklin (887), Hancock (884), Kennebec (3,581), Knox (629), Lincoln (574), Oxford (2,170), Penobscot (3,840), Piscataquis (249), Sagadahoc (873), Somerset (1,234), Waldo (578), Washington (709) and York (9,369) counties. Information about where an additional case was reported wasn’t immediately available.

As of Wednesday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 28,261,634 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 502,681 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.