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Maine reports more than 400 new coronavirus cases, three more deaths

Maine reports more than 400 new coronavirus cases, three more deaths

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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) The Maine CDC reported 439 new cases of the coronavirus Monday.

More than 22,000 cases have been reported since mid-March.

Also Monday, public health officials announced that three more people have died with COVID-19, raising the death toll to 326.

More than 17,000 Maine people, predominantly health care workers on the front lines of the pandemic, have received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, representing about 1.3 percent of the state’s population.

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