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Another Mainer has died from the new coronavirus as health officials confirmed 13 more cases across the state.
There are now 888 coronavirus cases spread across all of Maine’s counties, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from 875 on Monday.
The statewide death toll now stands at 36. The latest death involved a resident of Cumberland County, the Maine CDC reports.
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So far, 139 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. Of those, 40 people are currently hospitalized, with 16 in critical care and eight on ventilators, according to the Maine CDC.
Meanwhile, another 443 people have fully recovered from it, meaning there are 409 active cases in the state.
A majority of the cases have been in Mainers over age 50, while they are almost evenly split between women and men, according to the Maine CDC.
Another 14,076 people have tested negative for the coronavirus, according to the Maine CDC.
Tuesday’s uptick in confirmed cases comes a day after Maine recorded the lowest daily increase — eight — since March 20, when just two new confirmed cases were reported. Monday also saw hundreds gather outside the Blaine House in Augusta to protest restrictions put in place by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills to halt the coronavirus’ spread.
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The coronavirus has hit hardest in Cumberland County, where 386 cases have been confirmed and where the bulk of deaths from the virus have been concentrated. It is one of four counties — Androscoggin, Penobscot and York, with 36, 46 and 183 cases, respectively — where “community transmission” has been confirmed, according to the Maine CDC.
There are two criteria for establishing community transmission: at least 10 confirmed cases and that at least 25 percent of those are not connected to either known cases or travel. That second condition has not yet been “satisfied” in other counties.
Other cases have been detected in Aroostook (2), Franklin (13), Hancock (6), Kennebec (97), Knox (13), Lincoln (12), Oxford (14), Piscataquis (1), Sagadahoc (17), Somerset (16), Waldo (43) and Washington (2) counties. Information about where another case was detected was not immediately available Tuesday morning.
As of Tuesday morning, the coronavirus has sickened 788,920 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as caused 42,458 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.
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