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Three more Mainers were killed when health officials reported 439 new cases of coronavirus in the state on Monday.
According to a report by the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine has been raised to 22,319. It is higher than 21,880 on Sunday.
Of those, 19,128 were positively confirmed, while 3,191 were classified as ‘probable cases’, the Maine CDC reported.
Three York County residents have succumbed to the virus, bringing the death toll across the country to 326. Almost all deaths in Mainers were older than 60 years.
Maine’s seven-day average for new cases of coronavirus is 434.7, up from 419.7 a day ago, up from 424.1 a week ago and higher than 246 a month ago.
Health officials have warned Mainers that a “powerful and widespread” spread of the community is seen across the country. Each province sees high community broadcasts, 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 transfer: at least ten confirmed cases and that at least 25 percent of them are not related to known cases or travel.
So far, 1,032 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Information on those currently admitted to the hospital was not immediately available.
Meanwhile, another 34 Mainers have recovered from the coronavirus, bringing the total reported recovery to 11,184. That means there are at least 10,809 active confirmed and ‘likely’ cases in the state, which is higher than 10,406 on Sunday.
Maine CDC data probably underestimates the true number of repairs, as investigators have struggled to keep up with the increase in virus transmission, making it difficult to follow up on previous cases to confirm recovery. Instead, the Maine CDC only publishes data on the refunds reported directly to it. The underreported recoveries also affect the estimated number of probable active cases across the state.
A majority of the cases – 12,959 – were in Mainers under the age of 50, while more cases were reported in women than men, according to the Maine CDC.
As of Monday, there were 1,152,276 negative test results out of 1,180,847 overall. More than 2.3 percent of all tests returned positive, Maine CDC data shows.
The coronavirus hit hardest in Cumberland County, where 6,744 cases were reported and where the bulk of virus deaths – 92 – were concentrated. Other cases have been reported in Androscoggin (2,456), Aroostook (505), Franklin (439), Hancock (511), Kennebec (1,672), Knox (340), Lincoln (283), Oxford (1,043), Penobscot ( 1 871) Provinces of Piscataquis (108), Sagadahoc (354), Somerset (704), Waldo (367), Washington (339) and York (4574). Information on where nine more cases were reported was not immediately available.
As of Monday morning, the coronavirus had infected 19,161,619 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the US Virgin Islands, as well as 333,326 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University Medicine .