1 more Mainer dies and an additional 243 coronavirus cases are reported in the state

By Lindsay Putnam, Bangor Daily News Staff

This story will be updated.

Another Mainer has died as health officials on Friday reported 243 more coronavirus cases across the state.

The number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the past 14 days statewide is 2,618. This is an estimation of the current number of active cases in the state, as the Maine CDC is no longer tracking recoveries for all patients. That’s up from 2,605 on Thursday.

A Cumberland County resident has succumbed to the virus, bringing the statewide death toll to 728.

Friday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 48,070, according to the Maine CDC. That’s up from 47,832 on Thursday. 

The new case rate statewide Friday is 1.78 cases per 10,000 residents, and the total case rate statewide is 359.16.

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, 1,618 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19. Information about those who are currently hospitalized wasn’t immediately available.

Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (5,051), Aroostook (1,333), Cumberland (13,388), Franklin (951), Hancock (976), Kennebec (4,019), Knox (743), Lincoln (619), Oxford (2,363), Penobscot (4,274), Piscataquis (366), Sagadahoc (934), Somerset (1,305), Waldo (664), Washington (745) and York (10,100) counties. Information about where an additional case was reported wasn’t immediately available.

As of Friday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 29,651,206 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 538,799 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.