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A pair of pedestrians wear masks in Portland on Friday while walking by a sign urging them to do so. Troy R. Bennett | BDN
A pair of pedestrians wear masks in Portland on Friday while walking by a sign urging them to do so. Troy R. Bennett | BDN

3 more Mainers die and 359 coronavirus cases reported across the state

Contributed •January 29, 2021

By Rosemary Lausier, Bangor Daily News Staff

This story will be updated. 

Another three Mainers have died as health officials on Friday reported 359 more coronavirus cases across the state.

The statewide death has risen to 570.

Friday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 38,813, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from 38,454 on Thursday. 

Of those, 31,284 have been confirmed positive, while 7,529 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. 

For a complete breakdown of the age and sex demographics of cases, hospitalizations and deaths, use the interactive graphic below.

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So far, 1,381 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 (4,269), Aroostook (1,123), Cumberland (11,063), Franklin (753), Hancock (771), Kennebec (3,056), Knox (575), Lincoln (465), Oxford (1,888), Penobscot (3,362), Piscataquis (196), Sagadahoc (768), Somerset (1,079), Waldo (505), Washington (615) and York (8,310) counties. Information about where 15 additional cases were reported wasn’t immediately available.

As of Friday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 25,768,828 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 433,213 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.

Nationwide, 27.3 million doses of the vaccine have been administered, an increase of 2.3 million doses since Thursday, according to Bloomberg.

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