Another Mainer has died and 53 more coronavirus cases reported statewide

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Another Mainer has died as health officials reported another 53 cases of the coronavirus across the state on Saturday.

The number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the past 14 days statewide is 889. 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 943 on Friday.

This is the ninth day in a row that Maine has seen new cases of the coronavirus slide below triple digits, a level of transmission that seemed unthinkable last winter when infections soared by over 800 a day at times. It comes as Gov. Janet Mills said on Friday that Maine’s emergency civil status has been alive since April 2020 will finally be allowed to expire on June 30.

A man in his 60s from Washington County has succumbed to the virus, bringing the statewide death toll to 845.

Saturday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 68,540, according to the Maine CDC. It is from 68 487 Friday.

Of those, 50,136 were confirmed positive, while 18,404 were classified as “probable cases,” reported the Maine CDC.

The new statewide case rate on Saturday was 0.40 cases per 10,000 people, and the total statewide case rate was 512.10.

Maine’s seven-day average for new coronavirus cases is 55.9, down from 62 a day ago, down from 72 a week ago, and down from 269.6 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 make up the majority of deaths. More cases and deaths have been recorded in women than in men. For a full breakdown of the demographics by age and sex of cases, hospitalizations and deaths, use the interactive graph below.

So far, 2,047 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.

The total statewide hospitalization rate on Saturday was 15.29 patients per 10,000 population.

Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (8,355), Aroostook (1,884), Cumberland (17,196), Franklin (1,362), Hancock (1,370), Kennebec (6,555), Knox (1,142), Lincoln ( 1,075), Oxford (3,620), Penobscot (6,279), Piscataquis (573), Sagadahoc (1,471), Somerset (2,257), Waldo (1,043), Washington (927) and York (13,431) counties ).

For a full breakdown of the data county by county, use the interactive graph below.

An additional 934 Mainers have been vaccinated against the coronavirus in the past 24 hours. On Saturday, 731,507 Mainers received a first dose of the vaccine, while 744,421 received a final dose.

As of Saturday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 33,438,248 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the US Virgin Islands, and caused 599,181 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. of Medication.

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