Another Mainer dies and 142 more coronavirus cases are reported across the state

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff

This story will be updated.

Another Mainer has died as health officials on Sunday reported 142 more coronavirus cases across the state.

The statewide death toll stands at 703.

Sunday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 44,634, according to the Maine CDC. That’s up from 44,492 on Saturday. 

Of those, 35,158 have been confirmed positive, while 9,476 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, 1,527 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 (4,809), Aroostook (1,273), Cumberland (12,521), Franklin (902), Hancock (908), Kennebec (3,627), Knox (644), Lincoln (582), Oxford (2,210), Penobscot (3,919), Piscataquis (281), Sagadahoc (886), Somerset (1,242), Waldo (586), Washington (723) and York (9,521) counties.

An additional 4,618 Mainers have been vaccinated against the coronavirus in the previous 24 hours. As of Sunday, 227,023 Mainers have received a first dose of the vaccine, while 119,835 have received two doses. 

As of Sunday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 28,554,887 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 511,999 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.