Another 30 deaths were reported in Maine, while health officials on Saturday reported 438 more cases of coronavirus across the state.
Saturday’s report raises the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 33,219, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s 32,781 on Friday.
Of these, 27,249 were confirmed positive, while 5,970 were classified as “probable cases”, reported the Maine CDC.
The additional 30 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 Penobscot County residents and five York County residents, bringing the death toll across the state to 507.
Twenty-three of the additional deaths reported today have been confirmed through review of vital records, said the Maine CDC. All deaths have occurred since December 24, 2020.
The Maine CDC continues to report widespread high levels of transmission in the community, defined as a case rate of 16 or more per 10,000 people, even in counties once largely spared the worst of the pandemic.
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, 1,242 Maine residents have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Of these, 194 patients are currently hospitalized, with 59 in intensive care and 22 on a ventilator.
Vaccines have been administered to 78,805 inhabitants so far, with 11,537 receiving two doses.
There were 1,328,905 negative test results out of 1,368,816 overall. About 2.85 percent of all tests were positive, show the most recent data available from the Maine CDC.
Coronavirus hit most heavily in Cumberland County, where 9,735 cases were reported and where most virus deaths – 124 – were concentrated. Other cases have been 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), Piscataquis (162), Sagadahoc (613), Somerset (938), Waldo (428), Washington (492) and York counties (7,222). Information on where eight more cases were reported was not immediately available.
As of Saturday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 23,532,606 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 392,139 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.