#Another seven #Mainers have died as health officials on #Tuesday reported 590 new coronavirus cases across the state.
#Tuesday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in #Maine to 22,909, according to the #Maine #Center for #Disease #Control and #Prevention. #That’s up from 22,319 on #Monday.
#Of those, 19,582 have been confirmed positive, while 3,327 were classified as “probable cases,” the #Maine CDC reported.
A man in his 70s from #Androscoggin #County, a woman in her 80s and a woman in her 90s from #Cumberland #County, a woman in her 80s from #Oxford #County, a man in his 60s and a woman in her 70s from #Penobscot #County and a woman in her 80s from #York #County have succumbed to the virus, bringing the statewide death toll to 333. #Nearly all deaths have been in #Mainers over age 60.
#Maine’s seven-day average for new coronavirus cases is 453.3, up from 434.6 a day ago, up from 430.7 a week ago and up from 163.6 a month ago.
#Health officials have warned #Mainers that “forceful and widespread” community transmission is being seen throughout the state. #Every county is seeing high community transmission, which the #Maine CDC defines as a case rate of 16 or more cases per 10,000 people.
There are two criteria for establishing community transmission: at least 10 confirmed cases and that at least 25 percent of those are not connected to either known cases or travel.
#So far, 1,041 #Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. #Of those, 184 people are currently hospitalized, with 48 in critical care and 19 on ventilators.
#As of #Tuesday, 19,634 #Mainers have been vaccinated against the coronavirus.
A majority of the cases — 13,368 — have been in #Mainers under age 50, while more cases have been reported in women than men, according to the #Maine CDC.
#As of #Tuesday, there have been 1,158,549 negative test results out of 1,187,533 overall. #Nearly 2.4 percent of all tests have come back positive, #Maine CDC data show.
The coronavirus has hit hardest in #Cumberland #County, where 6,879 cases have been reported and where the bulk of virus deaths — 94 — have been concentrated. #Other cases have been reported in #Androscoggin (2,533), #Aroostook (528), #Franklin (448), #Hancock (514), #Kennebec (1,727), #Knox (353), #Lincoln (291), #Oxford (1,081), #Penobscot (1,923), #Piscataquis (111), #Sagadahoc (363), #Somerset (723), #Waldo (376), #Washington (343) and #York (4,703) counties. #Information about where an additional 13 cases were reported wasn’t immediately available.
#As of #Tuesday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 19,334,975 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 335,623 deaths, according to the #Johns #Hopkins #University of #Medicine.
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