Saturday’s new cases include 36 new cases detected at York County Jail.
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday reported 53 new cases of the novel coronavirus and no new deaths, a large daily increase boosted by the detection of 36 new cases at the York County Jail. Maine’s cumulative cases rose to 4,489 on Saturday, according to the Maine CDC. Of those,4,032 have been confirmed by testing and 457 are considered probable cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus. One hundred thirty-two people have died with COVID-19 in Maine. Subtracting the number of people who have recovered – 3,899 – and died, there were 458 active cases on Saturday. An outbreak at the York County Jail spread dramatically over the past week, growing from an apparent 18 cases to 54 cases on Friday, with 80 tests still left to analyze. Thirty-five inmates are infected. The outbreak stems from a wedding reception in Millinocket that directly or indirectly infected over 100 people, according to the Maine CDC. A jail employee attended the wedding reception, state health officials said.
