3 more Mainers have died and another 1,115 coronavirus cases reported across the state – Bangor Daily News

Threemore Mainers have died and another 1,115coronavirus cases reported across the state, Maine health officials said Thursday.

Thursdays report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 184,614,according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Thats up from 183,499 on Wednesday.

Of those, 136,105have been confirmed positive, while 48,509were classified as probable cases, the Maine CDC reported.

Two men and a woman in their 70s and 80s from Penobscot County have succumbed to the virus, bringing the statewide death toll to 1,822.

The number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the past 14 days statewide is 13,090. 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 down from 13,501 on Wednesday.

The new case rate statewide Thursday was 8.33 cases per 10,000 residents, and the total case rate statewide was 1,379.36.

The most cases have been detected in Mainers younger than 20, while Mainers over 80 years old account for the largest portion of deaths. More cases have been recorded in women and more deaths in men.

So far, 4,081 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. Of those, 308 are currently hospitalized, with 66 in critical care and 26 on a ventilator. Overall, 59 out of 378 critical care beds and 258 out of 328 ventilators are available.

The total statewide hospitalization rate on Thursday was 30.49 patients per 10,000 residents.

Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (18,635), Aroostook (8,752), Cumberland (38,586), Franklin (4,516), Hancock (5,395), Kennebec (17,631), Knox (4,415), Lincoln (3,924), Oxford (8,976), Penobscot (20,732), Piscataquis (2,308), Sagadahoc (3,840), Somerset (7,739), Waldo (4,575), Washington (3,208) and York (31,378) counties. Information about where an additional four cases were reported wasnt immediately available.

An additional 977 vaccine doses were administered in the previous 24 hours. As of Thursday, 980,645 Mainers are fully vaccinated, or about 76.6 percent of eligible Mainers, according to the Maine CDC.

As of Thursday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 77,284,578 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 912,549 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.

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