Monday's COVID-19 case count remains low, Maine CDC reports - Press Herald

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Presidents’ Day reported 150 new cases of the novel coronavirus and no additional deaths, continuing the low case counts that led state officials to ease some pandemic restrictions last week.

Sunday’s case count was 120 with two additional deaths and on Saturday there were 164 new cases and four deaths.

As of Sunday, Maine’s seven-day average of new daily cases fell to 190.1, far below its peak of 625.3 on Jan. 14, but still several times the low averages of the summer and early fall. Spurred by the recent drop in case numbers, state officials moved all Maine counties to the lowest-risk “green” setting last week, meaning all schools are considered safe for in-person instruction, with some anti-infection precautions.

Maine’s cumulative COVID-19 cases rose to 42,677 on Monday. Of those cases, 34,003 have been confirmed by testing and 8,674 are considered probable cases of COVID-19.

Six hundred forty-nine people have died with COVID-19 since the pandemic began in Maine. The two deaths reported Sunday were of 80-year-old women in Cumberland County.

County by county as of Monday, there had been 4,626 coronavirus cases in Androscoggin, 1,231 in Aroostook, 11,993 in Cumberland, 875 in Franklin, 855 in Hancock, 3,478 in Kennebec, 614 in Knox, 544 in Lincoln, 2,121 in Oxford, 3,689 in Penobscot, 241 in Piscataquis, 848 in Sagadahoc, 1,215 in Somerset, 567 in Waldo, 693 in Washington, and 9,082 in York.

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