The coronavirus has actually claimed another life in Maine– raising the statewide death toll to 17– while the overall variety of verified COVID-19 cases increased to 586 on Friday, according to the current figures from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Avoidance.
Maine included 26 brand-new verified coronavirus cases from Thursday to Friday, an increase of simply shy of 5 percent. The Maine CDC also reported that 111 people had been hospitalized eventually throughout their illness but that 246 individuals had recuperated from COVID-19 and been launched from isolation. The state now has 323 active cases of the infection, based on the variety of deaths and recoveries.
The epicenter of the illness in Maine continues to be Cumberland and York counties, which represent 413 of the 586 cases. But Waldo County depends on 19 cases due, in big part, to an outbreak at a Belfast nursing home and senior living community. Piscataquis remains the only county without a confirmed COVID-19 case.
The death was a woman in her 80 s from Sagadahoc County, said Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine CDC, at a media rundown Friday afternoon. It was the first death reported in that county.
Shah said there are now 20 people statewide in hospital intensive care units and 37 hospitalized people who are not intensive care. This is the very first time the CDC has actually reported that information to the public at its everyday instruction.
He said neighborhood transmission is likewise occurring now in Penobscot County, in addition to Cumberland and York counties.
Gov. Janet Mills, who signed up with Shah at the rundown, said she has actually asked the Maine National Guard to deal with utility companies after Thursday night’s snowstorm, which cut power to 250,000 Mainers, and to focus on power restoration to the state’s hospitals.
On Thursday, Shah highlighted concerns about coronavirus outbreaks in nursing