10 more Mainers have died and another 897 coronavirus cases reported since the weekend – Bangor Daily News

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Tenmore Mainers have died as health officials on Tuesday reported another 897coronavirus cases across the state since the weekend.

Tuesdays report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 92,365,according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Thats up from 91,468 on Saturday.

Of those, 65,902have been confirmed positive, while 26,463were classified as probable cases, the Maine CDC reported.

An Aroostook County resident, a Cumberland County resident, a Kennebec County resident, a Knox County resident, five Penobscot County residents and a Piscataquis County resident have succumbed to the virus, bringing the statewide death toll to 1,036.

Of those, one was 80 or older, four in their 70s, two in their 60s, two in their 50s and one in their 40s.

The number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the past 14 days statewide is 7,823. 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. Thats up from 7,559 on Saturday.

The new case rate statewide Tuesday was 6.70 cases per 10,000 residents, and the total case rate statewide was 690.11.

Maines seven-day average for new coronavirus cases is 597.1, down from 611.4 the day before, up from 521.9 a week ago and up from 383 a month ago. That average peaked on Jan. 14 at 625.3.

The most cases have been detected in Mainers younger than 20, while Mainers over 80 years old make up the majority of deaths. More cases have been recorded in women and more deaths in men.

So far, 2,536Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. Information about those who are currently hospitalized wasnt immediately available.

The total statewide hospitalization rate on Tuesday was 18.95 patients per 10,000 residents.

Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (9,869), Aroostook (3,409), Cumberland (20,457), Franklin (1,901), Hancock (2,400), Kennebec (8,734), Knox (1,685), Lincoln (1,631), Oxford (4,537), Penobscot (10,801), Piscataquis (1,176), Sagadahoc (1,802), Somerset (3,679), Waldo (2,126), Washington (1,525) and York (16,632) counties. Information about where an additional case was reported wasnt immediately available.

An additional vaccine dose was administered in the previous 24 hours. As of Tuesday, 878,309 Mainers are fully vaccinated, or about 74.2 percent of eligible Mainers, according to the Maine CDC.

As of Tuesday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 43,853,214people 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 703,402deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.

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