225 more coronavirus cases have been reported in Maine

By Rosemary Lausier, Bangor Daily News Staff

This story will be updated. 

Another 225 coronavirus cases have been reported across the state, Maine health officials said Friday.

No new deaths were reported Friday, leaving the statewide death toll at 704. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention previously reported 705 deaths on Thursday, meaning a death previously reported was removed for not being COVID-19 related. 

Friday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 45,452, according to the Maine CDC. That’s up from 45,227 on Thursday. 

Of those, 35,636 have been confirmed positive, while 9,816 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, 1,560 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. Information on those hospitalizations was not immediately available. 

Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (4,875), Aroostook (1,290), Cumberland (12,741), Franklin (913), Hancock (932), Kennebec (3,717), Knox (664), Lincoln (590), Oxford (2,255), Penobscot (4,004), Piscataquis (323), Sagadahoc (891, Somerset (1,257), Waldo (600), Washington (726) and York (9,674) counties.

As of Friday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 28,827,140 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 520,356 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.