There are two criteria for establishing transmission in the community: at least 10 confirmed cases and that at least 25 percent of them are not linked to known cases or trips.
So far, 1,217 Maine residents have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Information on people currently hospitalized was not immediately available.
Most cases – 19,064 – occurred in Mainers under the age of 50, while more cases were reported in women than in men, according to the Maine CDC.
As of Wednesday, there were 1,301,674 negative test results out of 1,340,121 in total. About 2.8 percent of all tests were positive, show the most recent data available from the Maine CDC.
Coronavirus hit most heavily in Cumberland County, where 9,436 cases were reported and where most virus deaths – 117 – were concentrated. Other cases have been reported in Androscoggin (3,462), Aroostook (951), Franklin (545), Hancock (659), Kennebec (2,383), Knox (462), Lincoln (378), Oxford (1,485), Penobscot (3,696), Piscataquis (152), Sagadahoc (575), Somerset (907), Waldo (415), Washington (466) and York counties (6,973). Information on where 13 additional cases were reported was not immediately available.
As of Thursday morning, the coronavirus had made 23,073,350 people sick 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 384,784 deaths, from according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.