Another 16 Mainers were killed when health officials reported 823 more cases of coronavirus across the state on Friday.
According to Friday’s report, the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine is 32,781, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. It is higher than 31.958 on Thursday.
Of these, 26,923 were confirmed positive, while 5,858 were classified as ‘probable’, the CDC reported in Maine.
The 16 deaths reported Friday bring the nationwide toll to 477. The deaths reported today include two residents of Androscoggin County, five residents of Aroostook County, two residents of Cumberland County, two residents of Hancock County, one resident of Oxford County, two residents of Penobscot County and two residents of Washington County. . Thirteen of the people who died were women, while three were men. One was in their 40s, one was in their 50s, two were in their 60s, two were in their 70s and 10 were 80 or older.
Maine’s seven – day average for new cases of coronavirus is 627.1, up from 622.4 a day ago, up from 539.9 a week ago and up from 403.7 a month ago. Before this boom began in late October, Maine’s average hovered over seven days in the 1930s.
The Maine CDC continues to report widespread high levels of community transmission, defined as a case of 16 or more per 10,000 people, even in provinces that were once the worst hit by the pandemic.
There are two criteria for establishing community transfer: at least ten confirmed cases and that at least 25 percent of them are not related to known cases or travel.
So far, 1,228 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. As of Friday, 193 patients are currently being admitted to the hospital, with 61 in critical care and 24 in a ventilator.
Vaccinations have so far been administered to 70,228 Mainers, while 10,617 have received two doses.
There were 1,328,905 negative test results out of the 1,368,816. About 2.85 percent of all tests came back positive, according to the most recent Maine CDC data.
The coronavirus hit hardest in Cumberland County, where 9,650 cases were reported and where the majority of virus deaths – 119 – were concentrated. Other cases were reported in Androscoggin (3,553), Aroostook (996), Franklin (552), Hancock (671), Kennebec (2,472), Knox (466), Lincoln (385), Oxford (1,523), Penobscot (2,787) Provinces Piscataquis (155), Sagadahoc (589), Somerset (930), Waldo (423), Washington (484) and York (7,125). Information on where another 20 cases were reported was not immediately available.
As of Friday night, the coronavirus had infected 23,520,561 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the US Virgin Islands, and caused 391,922 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. Medicine.