Another Mainer has died from COVID-19, bringing the state's death toll from the pandemic to 133. The person who died was a man in his 70s from Somerset County, CDC officials say.
Meanwhile, the state has logged a net increase of 19 cases since Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases to 4,567.
That's according to new figures the Maine Center for Disease Control posted Wednesday. They show that 3,978 people have recovered from the disease, 33 more than Tuesday.
That leaves 456 active cases that the state is tracking, a drop of 15 overnight.
Spokesman Robert Long says an outbreak related to a wedding and reception August 7 in Millinocket is now linked to 143 cases in Maine, including 74 cases at the facility that houses the York County Jail - up from 66 Tuesday - and 13 cases at the Maplecrest Rehabilitation and Living Center in Madison, an increase of one.
The case count for an outbreak at the Calvary Baptist Church in Sanford remains at five, officials say, and they haven't been linked to any other outbreak.
The number of Mainers with COVID-19 who have had to be hospitalized at some point rose overnight by two to 423. Current hospitalizations are not yet updated, but as of Tuesday, nine Mainers were hospitalized, five of them in intensive care. One person was on a ventilator.
Wednesday afternoon, Gov. Janet Mills' office announced that Mills was extending the state of civil emergency for thirty days through October 1, 2020.
The Maine CDC's next briefing on the coronavirus is scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday.
Updated at 3:31 p.m. Sept. 2, 2020
