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Gov. Janet Mills announces that one person has tested positive for coronavirus in Maine, during a news conference at the State House, Thursday, March 14, , in Augusta, Maine. Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, is at right.
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Updated: March , (7:) (pm) (As of 4:) pm Sunday, March , (Seven Maine residents have been confirmed positive and
(five) others are presumed positive for the coronavirus, according to the state. Click here for the latest coronavirus news, which the BDN has made free for the public. You can support this mission by [Here are answers to questions from BDN readers about the new coronavirus]
Mills’ emergency order allows the governor to assume more power over the outbreak , including suspending the enforcement of laws, establishing emergency reserves of certain products and entering into mutual aid agreements with other states or countries. It also allows the state to access federal funding to mitigate the outbreak.
Mills recommended stopping classroom instruction in Maine – though many
have announced they will close this week – and halting gatherings of more than (people or people if seniors are involved. The Democratic governor has not gone as far as some counterparts or moved to close state government.
at a news conference on Sunday evening, Mills said while the emergency order allows her to order the closure of restaurants or other private businesses, she did not see “a need to order such actions when people are listening to the recommendations and doing what they should be doing.”
seven confirmed cases of the virus in the state on Sunday, with another five people registering positive in tests analyzed by a private laboratory.
more vulnerable to serious illness from the virus than that of all but one other state, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation .
Nationally, there have been 2, (diagnosed cases of the coronavirus and
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