8 more Mainers have died and 893 more coronavirus cases reported since Saturday

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Thirteen more Mainers have died as health officials on Wednesday reported 893 more coronavirus cases across the state since the weekend.

Wednesday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 95,833, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. It is against 94,940.

Of those, 68,339 were confirmed positive, while 27,494 were classified as “probable cases,” reported the Maine CDC.

Five men and three women succumbed to the virus, bringing the statewide death toll to 1,083. Of those, five were 80 years or older and three were 70 years old.

They lived in the counties of Cumberland (1), Kennebec (1), Penobscot (3), Somerset (2) and York (1).

Wednesday’s update included COVID-19 data reported to the Maine CDC since Saturday. There was no update on Tuesday due to the Indigenous Peoples Day on Monday.

The number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the past 14 days statewide is 6,769. 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’s against 6,743 on Tuesday.

The new statewide case rate on Wednesday was 6.67 cases per 10,000 people, and the statewide total case rate was 716.02.

Maine’s seven-day average for new coronavirus cases is 382.9, down from 371 the day before, down from 589.3 a week ago, and up from 484.3 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 have been recorded in women and more deaths in men.

So far, 2,614 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Information on those currently hospitalized was not immediately available.

As of Wednesday, the total statewide hospitalization rate was 19.53 patients per 10,000 population.

Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (10,190), Aroostook (3,577), Cumberland (20,953), Franklin (2,036), Hancock (2,518), Kennebec (9,141), Knox (1,776), Lincoln ( 1,686), Oxford (4,691), Penobscot (11,364), Piscataquis (1,222), Sagadahoc (1,865), Somerset (3,880), Waldo (2,216), Washington (1,630) and York (17,080 ). Information on where eight additional cases were reported was not immediately available.

2,050 additional doses of vaccine were administered over the previous 24 hours. As of Wednesday, 888,742 Mainers are fully vaccinated, or about 75 percent of eligible Mainers, according to the Maine CDC.

As of Wednesday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 44,571,733 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the US Virgin Islands, and caused 716,570 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. of Medication.

Correction: An earlier version of this report misstated the number of Mainers who recently succumbed to the coronavirus.

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