With the present surge of extra contagious strains of COVID-19 in Maine and elsewhere within the Northeast, the state reported 791 new instances of the infectious illness and 5 further deaths on Saturday.
Hospitalization numbers remained secure Saturday, because the Maine Heart for Illness Management and Prevention reported 214 folks hospitalized with the coronavirus. Of these, 27 had been in essential care and one particular person was on a ventilator. On Friday there have been 215 folks in Maine hospitals with the virus.
With infections rising, the nation’s high well being officers proceed to suggest that folks in states like Maine step up efforts to gradual the unfold by sporting masks indoors, avoiding crowds and testing earlier than indoor gatherings.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, mentioned greater than 45 p.c of the nation’s inhabitants stay the place there’s a medium or excessive threat of COVID-19 transmission. In high-risk counties, “folks must be masking,” Walensky tweeted Friday. Those that stay in counties with medium-risk ranges ought to contemplate masking primarily based on private threat, she mentioned.
In Maine, there are masks mandates for well being amenities, some native authorities workplaces and public faculty buildings. On Friday, town of Portland introduced it was as soon as once more requiring masks at Metropolis Corridor.
In most public locations, masks mandates haven’t resumed. In space shops and retailers, visits present many consumers should not returning to masking.
On late Thursday the U.S. CDC listed Maine’s most populated county, Cumberland, as excessive threat for transmission of the virus, together with eight different counties. That’s an enormous change in comparison with April, when the entire state was at low threat of transmission.
Along with Cumberland, high-risk counties are: Oxford, Androscoggin, Sagadahoc, Lincoln, Knox, Hancock, Penobscot and Aroostook. Medium-risk counties are York, Franklin, Kennebec, Waldo, Piscataquis and Washington. Somerset County is low threat, in keeping with the CDC.
New virus variants are infecting individuals who have earlier immunity, together with those that have been vaccinated. Vaccines proceed to guard most individuals in opposition to extreme sickness and hospitalizations, well being authorities say. However given how rapidly the brand new variants unfold, the virus might be lethal to older folks, the unvaccinated or these with underlying medical circumstances, they notice.
Because the pandemic started in 2020, Maine has recorded 259,058 instances of COVID-19 and a pair of,343 deaths.
On Sunday in Gorham, a memorial service shall be held to recollect those that have died with COVID-19, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland introduced. The memorial will start at 2 p.m. at St. Anne’s Church, 299 Fundamental St.
Memorial playing cards shall be out there Sunday morning for folks to put in writing the title of family members to recollect. Playing cards might be dropped right into a particular basket on the finish of Lots that start at 8 a.m. and 11 a.m.
Every of the names shall be learn throughout the 2 p.m. service.
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