Maine reported 30 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, the lowest number of daily new cases reported since Oct. 20, other than when the state testing labs were closed for holidays. There were no additional deaths.
The seven-day daily average of new cases slipped to 69.7 on Monday, compared to 98.7 a week ago and 307.7 a month ago. All counties reported single digit or zero cases on Monday, with Cumberland County, the state’s most populous, logging the most at eight cases. Six counties – Androscoggin, Aroostook, Franklin, Hancock, Knox and Piscataquis – reported zero new cases.
During the pandemic’s peak in mid-January, Maine was often reporting more than 600 cases per day, and more than 400 per day during the height of the spring surge in April.
Reporting of cases often lags over the weekend, because people are less likely to get tested then, and some private labs don’t send test results to the state lab on weekends. But even taking into account a weekend lag, Monday’s case numbers were low as more people in Maine get immunized.
Since the pandemic began, Maine has reported 68,262 cases of COVID-19, and 839 deaths.
On the vaccine front, 724,806 people, or 53.9 percent of the state’s 1.3 million population, have received at least the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Also, 720,438, or 53.6 percent, have received their final dose.
Maine is trying to reach younger populations by hosting clinics in areas where younger people may congregate, such as concerts, breweries and outside of a youth basketball league in Portland on Sunday.
Rahaf Hlail 12, of Portland anxiously waits to receive a COVID-19 vaccination from Registered Nurse Peggy Akers during a clinic and basketball tournament at Kennedy Park in Portland on Sunday. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer
Peggy Akers, one of the nurses distributing shots on Sunday near the basketball courts, said she recently held clinics on several Maine islands.
“It’s a real gift, being able to do this,” she said. “I feel like I’m injecting hope into people’s arms.”
The state’s mobile vaccination unit – a partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency – will be at Rising Tide Brewing in Portland from Thursday-Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., giving the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
In a Facebook post over the weekend, Dr. Dora Anne Mills, chief improvement officer for MaineHealth, which has operated numerous vaccine clinics throughout the state, reflected on more than a year of fighting the virus. She wrote that there are many “heroes” who helped with the state’s response to the virus and getting people immunized as quickly as possible.
“We are inspired. A fire is ignited. our journeys have given us the taste of an elixir,” Mills wrote. “We are all heroes.”
Hospitalizations have also declined in recent weeks. Currently, there are 58 people hospitalized in Maine with COVID-19, including 26 in critical care.
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