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Another Mainer died while health officials on Sunday reported 347 new cases of coronavirus across the state.
Sunday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 25,592, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s 25,245 on Saturday.
Of these, 21,693 were confirmed positive, while 3,899 were classified as “probable cases”, reported the Maine CDC.
A 60-year-old man from Hancock County died, bringing the death toll across the state to 359.
New cases have been reported in Androscoggin (46), Aroostook (17), Cumberland (57), Franklin (10), Hancock (5), Kennebec (28), Knox (6), Lincoln (4), Oxford (23), Penobscot (50), Sagadahoc (15), Somerset (10), Waldo (3), Piscataquis (3) Washington (4) and York (98) counties, show state data. Information on 19 additional cases was not available.
So far, 1,099 Maine residents have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Of these, 190 people are hospitalized, with 47 in intensive care and 20 on ventilators.
Another 27 people recovered from the coronavirus, bringing the total number of Mainers who recovered to 11,438. This means that there are at least 13,768 active cases in the state.
As of Sunday, 32,955 Maine residents have been vaccinated against COVID-19, or 2.39 percent of the population. Maine ranks fourth in the country for the vaccination rate according to the Bloomberg vaccine tracker, trailing South Dakota with 2.99%, North Dakota with 2.78%, West Virginia with 2.78% and Vermont with 2.48%. The fast pace occurs despite the state receiving thousands of doses less than expected.
There were 1,177,522 negative test results out of 1,207,730 in total. About 2.4 percent of all tests were positive, data from the Maine CDC show.
Coronavirus hit most heavily in Cumberland County, where 7,627 cases were reported and where most virus deaths – 104 – were concentrated. Other cases have been reported in Androscoggin (2,774), Aroostook (713), Franklin (464), Hancock (557), Kennebec (1,907), Knox (379), Lincoln (312), Oxford (1,148), Penobscot (2,222), Piscataquis (120), Sagadahoc (404), Somerset (761), Waldo (385), Washington (389) and York counties (5,443). Information on where seven additional cases were reported was not immediately available.
As of Sunday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 20,430,797 people in all 50 states, in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the US Virgin Islands, in addition to causing 350,214 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.