Maine hit a grim milestone on Friday when the total number of coronavirus infections surpassed 100,000.
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday two more Mainers have died and another 575 coronavirus cases across the state.
Friday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 100,382, according to the Maine CDC. That’s up from 99,807 on Thursday.
Of those, 71,535 have been confirmed positive, while 28,847 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.
Two women in their 50s and 60s from Hancock and Lincoln counties have succumbed to the virus, bringing the statewide death toll to 1,115.
The number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the past 14 days statewide is 6,034. This is an estimation of the current number of active cases in the state, as the Maine CDC is no longer tracking recoveries for all patients. That’s up from 5,926 on Thursday.
The new case rate statewide Friday was 4.30 cases per 10,000 residents, and the total case rate statewide was 750.01.
Maine’s seven-day average for new coronavirus cases is 457.9, up from 454.6 the day before, up from 411.4 a week ago and up from 457 a month ago. That average peaked on Jan. 14 at 625.3.
The most cases have been detected in Mainers younger than 20, while Mainers over 80 years old make up the majority of deaths. More cases have been recorded in women and more deaths in men.
So far, 2,704 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. Of those, 193 are currently hospitalized, with 65 in critical care and 26 on a ventilator. Overall, 48 out of 342 critical care beds and 208 out of 305 ventilators are available.
The total statewide hospitalization rate on Friday was 20.20 patients per 10,000 residents.
Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (10,560), Aroostook (3,792), Cumberland (21,598), Franklin (2,224), Hancock (2,701), Kennebec (9,592), Knox (1,904), Lincoln (1,765), Oxford (4,971), Penobscot (11.961), Piscataquis (1,296), Sagadahoc (1,940), Somerset (4,212), Waldo (2,383), Washington (1,810) and York (17,669) counties. Information about where an additional four cases were reported wasn’t immediately available.
An additional 2,012 vaccine doses were administered in the previous 24 hours. As of Friday, 900.053 Mainers are fully vaccinated, or about 76.1 percent of eligible Mainers, according to the Maine CDC.
New Hampshire reported 640 new cases on Friday and two deaths. Vermont reported 322 new cases and two deaths, while Massachusetts reported 1,381 new cases and 21 deaths.
As of Friday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 45,312,103 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 733,435 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.