180 more coronavirus cases have been reported across Maine
By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff
This story will be updated.
More than a year after the first case was confirmed here, Maine has finally surpassed the grim milestone of 50,000 infections, with 180 new cases reported across the state on Monday.
The number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the past 14 days statewide is 2,831. 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 2,825 on Sunday.
No new deaths were reported Monday, leaving the statewide death toll at 736.
Monday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 50,030, according to the Maine CDC. That’s up from 49,850 on Sunday.
Of those, 38,481 have been confirmed positive, while 11,549 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.
The new case rate statewide Monday was 1.34 cases per 10,000 residents, and the total case rate statewide was 373.80.
Maine’s seven-day average for new coronavirus cases is 201.7, up from 200.1 a day ago, down from 207 a week ago and up from 167.7 a month ago. That average peaked on Jan. 14 at 625.3.
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, 1.661 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.
The total statewide hospitalization rate on Monday was 12.41 patients per 10,000 residents.
Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (5,247), Aroostook (1,393), Cumberland (13,862), Franklin (982), Hancock (1,038), Kennebec (4,246), Knox (798), Lincoln (651), Oxford (2,519), Penobscot (4,556), Piscataquis (380), Sagadahoc (969), Somerset (1,365), Waldo (700), Washington (760) and York (10,560) counties. Information about where an additional four cases were reported wasn’t immediately available.
An additional 1,245 Mainers have been vaccinated against the coronavirus in the previous 24 hours. As of Monday, 412,751 Mainers have received a first dose of the vaccine, while 255,228 have received two doses.
As of Monday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 30,262,593 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 549,335 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.