Three people have reportedly died of COVID-19 after being infected by an outbreak that originated from an early August wedding reception in Maine
Photo: Hanneke Vollbehr/Getty Images , according to local hospital officials and the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. According to NBC News, none of the people who died from the outbreak attended the reception. State officials have not commented on the particular links between the three people who died and wedding guests, although the family of the first victim told the Portland Press Herald that she’d had contact with someone who attended the reception.
Maine has a low transmission rate and a 50-person limit on indoor gatherings as well as a mask mandate at indoor public places. Nonetheless, the Maine CDC said that that 65 people attended the wedding reception on August 7 at the Big Moose Inn in Millinocket. Maine CDC announced on Friday that 147 cases have now been linked to the reception had been identified, many of them secondary and tertiary infections.
The Herald reports that many of the cases have been attributed to the spread of the virus through the York County Jail. A staffer at the jail attended the wedding, leading to an outbreak among staffers, their families, and inmates, a total of 72 cases.
Despite the preponderance of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations remain low in the state, with nine people hospitalized as of Friday, and five in intensive care. Management at The Big Moose Inn — a 37-acre property that contains cabins, campgrounds, and a restaurant — wrote in a Facebook post on Friday that the establishment had been cited for failing to comply with the state’s venue capacity guidelines, and that the facility’s license had been temporarily suspended.
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