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An indication prompts individuals to keep away from Stillwater Healthcare nursing home in Bangor to protect individuals at the center.
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Since Tuesday evening, there are now 888 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in all of Maine’s counties, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Avoidance.
The statewide death toll increased to 36 on Monday with the death of a resident of Cumberland County.
[Our COVID-19 tracker contains the most recent information on Maine cases by county]
Up until now, 139 Mainers have actually been hospitalized at some time with COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. On the other hand, another 443 people have totally recuperated from it, meaning there are 409 active cases in the state.
Here’s the latest on the coronavirus and its effect in Maine.
— Coronavirus hospitalizations in Maine slowed over the previous week, potentially indicating that the state has actually passed a peak, but public health specialists say that continued social distancing measures are still needed to avoid a 2nd wave.
— Despite the fact that everyone is practicing social distancing and seclusion, making big gatherings difficult, birthdays must still be celebrated– particularly if you’re turning102 Here’s how a Belfast female born throughout the 1918 influenza pandemic commemorated her birthday.
The head of Maine’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention stated Tuesday the company is double-testing some negative coronavirus tests produced by a rapid-results set after reports that the test might be amongst the least accurate in blood circulation.
— The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the very first at home test for COVID-19 on Tuesday, permitting one company to sell kits that permit individuals to gather nasal swab specimens on their own. But regardless of restricted capacity to test for COVID-19 in Maine, the state is proceeding thoroughly and reviewing how well the house collection packages work prior to promoting their use, Nirav Shah, the director of the Maine Center for Illness Control and Prevention, stated Tuesday afternoon.
— A group of state and nonprofit agencies Tuesday launched a brand-new phone assistance service to provide emotional assistance to health care employees and first responders who are dealing with the frontlines responding to the coronavirus pandemic. Called the FrontLine WarmLine, the phone support service was launched to assist Maine healthcare experts and very first responders deal with tension and anxiety associated to dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
— The state’s wild turkey open season will start earlier than planned this year and will feature a crucial modification in light of the pandemic: hunters will not have to sign up any collected birds at tagging stations.
— Many courts have been forced to delay trials and other procedures due to coronavirus limitations. Those constraints have actually required the postponement of the trial of an Auburn man dealing with a murder charge from a Walmart parking area shooting last summertime, perhaps until next year, the Lewiston Sun Journal reports.
— Joining lots of neighborhood institutions that have needed to cancel broad swaths of planned occasions, Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick has canceled its performance season due to the fact that of the coronavirus. The Portland Press Herald reports that the theater has actually presented musicals at Pickard Theater on the Bowdoin College campus considering that 1959 and has never canceled more than an occasional single performance due to the fact that of a power blackout.
— Sales of single-family houses increased a modest amount in March, affected by the coronavirus pandemic though rates continued to be strong, according to data released Tuesday by the Maine Association of Realtors. House sales rose a tepid 0.36 percent compared to March2019 The median sales cost for the 1,124 houses offered was $227,950, up 8.55 percent for many years’s duration.
— A nurse from an outside firm who worked at the Stillwater Health Care nursing home in Bangor has actually tested positive for the coronavirus, however no other cases have actually been identified there, according to an administrator.
— Among the numerous results of the pandemic: students around the nation are unable to participate in standard graduation events. Some teachers and administrators are trying to acknowledge their achievements in brand-new methods. After loading up his automobile with the 12 lawn signs– one for each graduate– Veazie Neighborhood School Principal Matthew Cyr drove around town planting customized check in each soon-to-be graduate’s lawn. His surprise gesture was intended to be a “pick-me-up” for the kids whose final year of junior high has actually been drawn from them, Cyr stated.
— Maine is the only U.S. state with a considerable fishery for baby eels, which is among the most lucrative marine resources in Maine. But rates have actually tumbled as fishermen face the trouble of working around restrictions triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.
— There have been varying analyses of what’s permitted under Portland’s limitations on local services. Portland city councilors unanimously agreed Monday night to temporarily ease a few of those constraints on organisations considered nonessential under the city’s coronavirus stay-at-home order in order to ease the confusion.
Maine has actually released dozens of prisoners to prevent coronavirus’ spread.
— Since early Tuesday morning, the coronavirus has sickened 820,104 individuals throughout all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as triggered 44,228 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.
— Elsewhere in New England, there have been 1,961 coronavirus deaths in Massachusetts, 1,423 in Connecticut, 171 in Rhode Island, 42 in New Hampshire and 40 in Vermont.
Watch: Maine CDC press conference, April 21
