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Maine CDC Reporting Additional 25 Cases Of COVID-19 In The State

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A pathologist holds a vial from a COVID-19 test kit.

State Health Officials are reporting another 25 cases of COVID-19 in Maine Sunday, but no additional deaths.

The Maine Center for Disease control says there have been 1015 confirmed cases and 50 deaths in the state; 532 people have recovered from the disease.

There are currently 39 people in the state hospitalized with COVID-19, seven of whom are on ventilators.

Cumberland County continues to have the highest number of deaths from the disease with 24.

The CDC reports that almost two-thirds of COVID-19 cases have been in people in their 50s though 80s. Nursing home residents account for about half of Maine's COVID-19 deaths.

Updated 1:14 p.m. April 26, 2020

Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.