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First coronavirus case reported in Maine

Coronavirus has made it to Maine. 

The Pine Tree State confirmed its first infection Thursday, making it the 43rd state to have a positive case, the Bangor Daily News reported. 

A woman in her 50s in Androscoggin County, about an hour north of Portland, received the positive test result Thursday morning and is now quarantined, Gov. Janet Mills said at a news conference, according to the outlet. 

She has not been hospitalized and the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention is working with her and her doctor to treat the disease, figure out where she’s traveled and who else she may have come into contact with, the outlet said. 

As of 11:20 a.m., the state has tested 85 people for the flu-like virus, according to Maine’s CDC. 

Sixty-five of those tests came back negative while another 20 are still pending, according to the agency. 

So far, the rapidly spreading bug has infected 1,215 people in the U.S. and at least 36 people have died, according to the federal CDC’s latest numbers. 

A handful of states in the south and Midwest, including Mississippi and Wyoming, are the only remaining states who’ve yet to report a positive case.