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Today is Thursday. There have now been 2,137 confirmed and likely cases of the new coronavirus in all of Maine’s counties since the outbreak began here in March, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Two more Mainers — a woman in her 70s and a man in his 80s, both from Cumberland County — have died from coronavirus complications, bringing the statewide death toll to 81. So far, 260 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, while 1,357 people have fully recovered from the virus, meaning there are 699 active and likely cases in the state as of Wednesday, according to the Maine CDC.