Hospitalizations with COVID-19 are still low, at 14 patients, though that’s a slight uptick from Saturday’s 11.
Maine reported 24 cases of the novel coronavirus and no new deaths on Sunday, preserving the state’s trend of low case numbers and hospitalizations as the virus rebounds in other states. Maine’s cumulative cases rose to 3,814, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Of those cases,3,408 have been confirmed by testing and 406 are considered probable cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. One hundred nineteen people have died with COVID-19. Subtracting numbers of people who have recovered – 3,284 – and died, there were 411 active cases on Sunday. Hospitalizations with COVID-19 remained low across Maine on Sunday, at 14 patients. Compared to rising numbers elsewhere in the country, Maine’s hospitalization rates have been especially low; last week, some Maine hospitals reported their lowest numbers of patients since the beginning of the pandemic.
