95 more coronavirus cases have been reported across Maine

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff

This story will be updated.

Another 95 coronavirus cases have been reported across the state, Maine health officials said Wednesday.

No new deaths were reported Wednesday, leaving the statewide death toll at 725.

Wednesday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 47,483, according to the Maine CDC. That’s up from 47,388 on Tuesday. 

Of those, 36,796 have been confirmed positive, while 10,687 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, 1,607 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 (5,024), Aroostook (1,322), Cumberland (13,314), Franklin (945), Hancock (970), Kennebec (3,960), Knox (717), Lincoln (613), Oxford (2,345), Penobscot (4,242), Piscataquis (363), Sagadahoc (918), Somerset (1,302), Waldo (644), Washington (743) and York (10,058) counties.

As of Wednesday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 29,549,554 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 536,922 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.