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Five more Mainers have died as health officials on Wednesday reported 614 more cases of the coronavirus across the state.
Wednesday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 85,156, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. It is from 84 542 Tuesday.
Of those, 60,944 were confirmed positive, while 24,212 were classified as “probable cases,” reported the Maine CDC.
One person from Androscoggin, one from Aroostook and three from Penobscot counties succumbed to the virus, bringing the death toll to 1,007 statewide. One was a woman and four were men. Of these, two were 80 years or older and one was each in their 60s, 50s and 40s.
The number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the past 14 days statewide is 6,353. This is an estimate of the current number of active cases in the state, because the CDC du Maine no longer tracks recoveries for all patients. That is down from 6.473 on Tuesday.
The new statewide case rate on Wednesday was 4.59 cases per 10,000 people, and the statewide total case rate was 636.25.
Maine’s seven-day average for new coronavirus cases is 458.6, down from 480.9 the day before, down from 449.7 a week ago and 162.3 a month ago. This average peaked on January 14 at 625.3.
Most cases have been detected in Mainers under 20, while Mainers over 80 account for the majority of deaths. More cases and deaths have been recorded in women than in men.
So far, 2,432 Mainers have been hospitalized at any given time with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Among them, 226 are currently hospitalized, including 88 in intensive care and 40 on a ventilator. Overall, 46 of 342 intensive care beds and 184 of 295 ventilators are available.
As of Wednesday, the total statewide hospitalization rate was 18.17 patients per 10,000 population.
Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (9,346), Aroostook (2,981), Cumberland (19,614), Franklin (1,735), Hancock (2,006), Kennebec (7,946), Knox (1,517), Lincoln ( 1,438), Oxford (4,183), Penobscot (9,569), Piscataquis (984), Sagadahoc (1,660), Somerset (3,181), Waldo (1,940), Washington (1,236) and York (15) 814). Information on where six other cases were reported was not immediately available.
929 additional doses of vaccine were administered in the previous 24 hours. As of Wednesday, 874,457 Mainers are fully vaccinated, or about 73.8% of eligible Mainers, according to the Maine CDC.
New Hampshire on Wednesday reported 211 new cases and four deaths. Vermont reported 147 new cases and three deaths, while Massachusetts reported 1,382 new cases and 25 deaths.
As of Wednesday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 42,425,566 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the US Virgin Islands, and caused 678,815 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. of Medication.
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