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Morning News / Coronavirus Update

There are now 470 cases spread across 15 Maine counties, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported Sunday. That’s up from 456 on Saturday.

That includes 86 Maine residents who have been hospitalized with COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, while another 156 people have fully recovered from it, according to the Maine CDC.

The death toll in Maine remains at 10. The latest death, a man in his 70s from York County, was confirmed Saturday.

A majority of the cases have been in Maine residents over age 50, while they are evenly split between women and men.

 

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