Maine recorded six new coronavirus deaths and 617 new cases on Saturday.
According to the report from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the total number of cases of coronavirus in Maine is found at 29,019 on the report Saturday. This is higher than from 28 407 on Friday.
Of these, 24,218 were positively confirmed, while 4,801 were classified as ‘probable cases’, the Maine CDC reported.
The deaths reported on Saturday total the count at 432. Nearly all deaths in Mainers were over 60 years.
Saturday’s report is the eighth time in the past 11 days when new cases exceeded 400 and the fifth time this week when they protested 500.
This comes as increased virus transmission continues its month-long surge, leading to high levels of transmission in the community, which the Maine CDC defines as a case of 16 or more cases per 10,000 people, even to provinces that have largely spared the worst of 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, 1,158 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. As of Friday, 205 are currently hospitalized, with 56 in critical care and 26 in ventilators.
As of Friday, 43,362 Mainers had received at least one dose of coronavirus vaccine, while another 3,271 had received two doses.
A majority of the cases – 17,361 – were in Mainers under the age of 50, while more cases were reported in women than men, according to the Maine CDC.
As of Friday, there were 1,251,474 negative test results out of 1,286,695 in total. Maine CDC data show nearly 2.7 percent of all tests.
The coronavirus hit hardest in Cumberland County, where 8552 cases were reported and where the majority of virus deaths – 111 – were concentrated. Other cases have been reported in Androscoggin (3,109), Aroostook (827), Franklin (514), Hancock (619), Kennebec (2,153), Knox (412), Lincoln (355), Oxford (1,305), Penobscot ( 2,538) Provinces of Piscataquis (141), Sagadahoc (502), Somerset (847), Waldo (401), Washington (425) and York (6,308). Information on where 11 more cases were reported was not immediately available.
As of Saturday morning, the coronavirus had infected 21,872,264 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the US Virgin Islands, and caused 368,947 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. Medicine.