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Another Mainer has died as 15 more cases of the coronavirus were reported on Monday.

Mondays report brings the total coronavirus cases in Maine to 3,970. Of those, 3,541 have been confirmed positive, while 429 were classified as probable cases, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

New cases were reported in Cumberland (7), Kennebec (2), Penobscot (2), Sagadahoc (1) and York counties (3), state data show.

The agency revised Sundays cumulative total to 3,955, down from 3,958, meaning there was a net increase of 12 over the previous days report, state data show. As the Maine CDC continues to investigate previously reported cases, some are determined to have not been the coronavirus, or coronavirus cases not involving Mainers. Those are removed from the states cumulative total.

The latest death involved a man in his 50s from Cumberland County, bringing the statewide death toll to 124. Nearly all deaths have been in Mainers over age 60.

So far, 389 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. Of those, 12 people are currently hospitalized, three in critical care and one on ventilators.

Meanwhile, nine more people have recovered from the coronavirus, bringing total recoveries to 3,396. That means there are 450 active and probable cases in the state, which is up from 448 on Sunday.

A majority of the cases 2,215 have been in Mainers under age 50, while more cases have been reported in women than men, according to the Maine CDC.

As of Monday, there have been 177,040 negative test results out of 182,625 overall. Just under 3 percent of all tests have come back positive, Maine CDC data show.

The coronavirus has hit hardest in Cumberland County, where 2,058 cases have been reported and where the bulk of virus deaths 69 have been concentrated. It is one of four counties the others are Androscoggin, Penobscot and York, with 548, 150 and 658 cases, respectively where community transmission has been confirmed, according to the Maine CDC.

There are two criteria for establishing community transmission: at least 10 confirmed cases and that at least 25 percent of those are not connected to either known cases or travel. That second condition has not yet been satisfied in other counties.

Other cases have been reported in Aroostook (32), Franklin (45), Hancock (34), Kennebec (169), Knox (26), Lincoln (34), Oxford (55), Piscataquis (3), Sagadahoc (51), Somerset (34), Waldo (62) and Washington (9) counties. Information about where another two cases were reported wasnt immediately available Monday morning.

As of Monday morning, the coronavirus has sickened 4,675,628 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as caused 154,944 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.

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Another Mainer dies as 15 new coronavirus cases are reported - Bangor Daily News