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Maine CDC Director Nirav Shah provides his daily COVID-19 press instruction in Augusta on Monday inside the Maine Emergency Situation Management Agency while Regan Thibodeau translates.
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Forty-three new cases of coronavirus were verified in Maine on Saturday, the biggest one-day increase so far.
” This increase is concerning. It is consistent with the expected spread of cases in number and location,” Nirav Shah, the director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Avoidance, stated in a Saturday press rundown.
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Penobscot County saw its variety of validated cases nearly double to 10 on Saturday. That is among the limits for figuring out community spread.
Unlike Cumberland and York counties, it does not yet have community spread, according to Shah.
” Our examination is underway, which may alter,” Shah stated.
He stated neighborhood spread occurs when there are a minimum of 10 cases and a minimum of 25 percent of them are not connected to take a trip to locations known to be hard hit by the infection or linked to another known case.
Also of issue are the 3 lots health care employees in Maine who have now evaluated favorable for COVID-19, he said, adding that it is challenging to tell if they were infected inside or outside the health center.
The most recent upgrade on confirmed cases in Maine came a day after the state reported the death of a male in his 80 s in Cumberland County who had previously tested positive for COVID-19 It was the very first death in Maine of a person who had evaluated positive for the coronavirus
Of the verified cases, 34 percent are in their 40 s and 50 s, while 35 percent are in their 60 s and 70 s. Just 10 percent each remain in their 20 s and 80 s, while 9 percent remain in their 30 s and 2 percent are younger than 20, according to the Maine CDC.
The verified cases are divided practically equally in between sexes, with 107 ladies and 104 guys.
The number of validated cases in the United States passed a milestone of 100,000 today, the most of any nation in the world. Data from Johns Hopkins University shows total U.S. cases at 105,470 as of 11 a.m. Saturday. Italy