The Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Sunday 160 cases of the new coronavirus and two more deaths, another modest increase in cases coming as Maine officials hope to save the summer tourist season with a combination of vaccine immunity and reduced restrictions.
Last week, Governor Janet Mills announced the return of travel restrictions from other states in New England, and also facilitated the precautions for bar and tasting room service. According to Mills, the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in Maine will be distributed by summer in hopes of keeping the state open for its normally lucrative tourist season.
Maine’s cumulative COVID-19 cases rose to 45,794 on Sunday. Of these, 35,846 were confirmed by tests and 9,948 are considered probable cases of COVID-19. The seven-day average of new daily cases was 167.4.
Seven hundred and six people have died with COVID-19 since the Maine pandemic began. The Maine CDC has released information about the two people who reported Sunday that they were dead without correlating them by age, country or gender. They were a man and a woman from Cumberland County and York County, one in their 70s and the other 80 or older.
Restrictions on travel, businesses and public gatherings will weaken even further in May.
In the relatively open season, business owners feel aroused, although some health experts are worried that the public will abandon the precautions intended to contain the virus still present.
“I’m really worried about April school holidays for us,” said Dr. Meghan May, a professor of microbiology and infectious diseases at the University of New England, told the Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram. ‘People can feel like they’ve been trapped inside for so long, which is why they say,’ Let’s go to Disney. ‘”
Much of Maine’s readiness for the summer season will depend on the ongoing effort to vaccinate the population. As of Sunday morning, 268,563 Mainers had received a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 149,703 their second. Out of Maine’s 1.3 million population, 19.98 percent received their first dose, according to Maine CDC statistics.
A new, single-dose vaccine from Johnson & Johnson was recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and approximately 15,000 doses were shipped to Maine last week. But no doses are on the way this week, state officials say.
Rural per province as of Sunday, there were 4,896 cases of coronavirus in Androscoggin, 1,295 in Aroostook, 12,857 in Cumberland, 917 in Franklin, 940 in Hancock, 3,743 in Kennebec, 669 in Knox, 594 in Lincoln, 2,273 in Oxford, 4,051 in Penobscot, 328 in Piscataquis, 894 in Sagadahoc, 1,265 in Somerset, 606 in Waldo, 726 in Washington and 9,733 in York.
By age, 15.5 percent of patients were younger than 20, while 18.1 percent were in their twenties, 14.4 percent in their thirties, 13.2 percent in their 40s, 15.2 percent in their fifties, 11, 6 percent were in their 60s, 6.5 percent were in their 70s, and 5.5 percent were 80 or older.
Of the 67 patients who had COVID-19 Sunday in Maine hospitals, 16 were in intensive care and eight in ventilators. The state has 111 beds available for guard units, of which a total of 387 and 246 fans of 319 are available. There were also 446 alternative fans.
According to Johns Hopkins University, there were 116.7 million cases of COVID-19 and 2.59 million deaths worldwide on Sunday night. The United States had 28.9 million cases and 524,935 deaths.
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