Coronavirus Update

The Maine Legislature will consider a proposal that would require insurance companies to cover COVID-19 tests and immunizations.

MAINE UPDATE: The Maine Center for Disease Control today is reporting 313 new cases of COVID-19 and six related deaths. Aroostook County now has at least 673 active cases. Twenty-four people have died with COVID in the County since the pandemic began, most of them in the past six weeks...

Aroostook County, Maine & New Brunswick COVID-19 updates.

There are now 610 known active cases in Aroostook County. The number of active cases in the province is up to 110.

Dr. Shah said he's asked their team of epidemiologists and disease investigators to pay special attention to what’s happening in Aroostook County.

The number of COVID deaths in Aroostook County nursing homes in the past two weeks to 11.

AROOSTOOK COUNTY UPDATE: Fifty-seven new infections were reported in Aroostook County on Wednesday, bringing the number of active cases here to 423. Dr. Nirav Shah, Director of the Maine CDC said, “Our concern level is high with respect to what’s happening in Aroostook County right now, particularly in three nursing facilities...

In New Brunswick, there have been just eight deaths since the pandemic began.

The Maine Center for Disease Control is investigating an outbreak at the Caribou Rehab & Nursing Center

LOCAL UPDATE: Aroostook County now has 269 active cases. Three employees at Twin Rivers Paper Mill in Madawaska have tested positive for the virus, including a worker who lives in New Brunswick. Officials at Twin Rivers said that as a result of contact tracing, five more workers living in Edmundston have also been asked to self-isolate...