Another 30 deaths were reported in Maine, as health officials reported another 438 cases of coronavirus in the state on Saturday.
According to Saturday’s report, the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine is 33,219, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s from 32,781 on Friday.
Of these, 27,249 were positively confirmed, while 5,970 were classified as ‘probable’, the Maine CDC reported.
The 30 additional deaths reported today include one resident of Androscoggin County, four residents of Aroostook County, five residents of Cumberland County, two residents of Hancock County, one resident of Kennebec County, four residents of Oxford County, eight residents of Penobscot County, and five residents of York County, bringing the death toll across the country to 507.
Twenty-three of the additional deaths reported today have been confirmed by reviewing key records, the Maine CDC said. The deaths have all occurred since December 24, 2020.
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, 1,242 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Of these, 194 patients were hospitalized, 59 in critical care and 22 in a ventilator.
Vaccinations have so far been administered to 78,805 Mainers, while 11,537 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 9,735 cases were reported and where the bulk of virus deaths – 124 – were concentrated. Other cases were reported in Androscoggin (3,563), Aroostook (1,011), Franklin (561), Hancock (680), Kennebec (2,535), Knox (479), Lincoln (393), Oxford (1,549), Penobscot (2,850) Provinces Piscataquis (162), Sagadahoc (613), Somerset (938), Waldo (428), Washington (492) and York (7,222). Information on where eight more cases were reported was not immediately available.
As of Saturday morning, the coronavirus had infected 23,532,606 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the US Virgin Islands, and caused 392,139 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.