The latest report from the Maine Center from Disease Control brings total cases to 2,524 since the virus reached Maine.

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday reported 42 new cases of the novel coronavirus and no additional deaths, raising case numbers slightly as the state continues to reopen.

The newest numbers bring Maine’s total cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, to 2,524.

Total cases: 2,524.

Subtracting numbers of people who have recovered – 1,845 – and died, there were 581 active cases on Saturday.

The state’s seven-day average of daily new cases declined this past week, from 52.6 on May 26 to 36.6 on Friday, and active cases fell from 612 on Thursday to 587 on Friday.

Nirav Shah, director of the Maine CDC, said Thursday that Maine still has “a ways to go” before reaching a desired 2 percent positive rate for coronavirus tests – a benchmark achieved in South Korea, which built one of the world’s most effective pandemic responses.

The rate of positive tests for COVID-19, compared to the total that includes negative and inconclusive results, has fallen to just under 5 percent in Maine after wavering between 5 and 6 percent in recent months.

Hospitalizations at Maine Medical Center in Portland fell from 34 to 10 over the week ending Thursday, back to levels not seen since March.

County by county on Saturday, there were 346 cases in Androscoggin, 10 in Aroostook, 1,290 in Cumberland, 36 in Franklin, 12 in Hancock, 130 in Kennebec, 21 in Knox, 20 in Lincoln, 32 in Oxford, 101 in Penobscot, one in Piscataquis, 30 in Sagadahoc, 22 in Somerset, 52 in Waldo, one Washington and 420 in York.

Women still make up the majority of cases, at 51.4 percent.

Maine’s hospitals had 35 patients with COVID-19 on Saturday, continuing a decline from a late May spike in coronavirus hospitalizations.

Around the world on Saturday, there were 6.9 million cases of COVID-19 and 399,000 deaths.

The United States had 1.9 million cases and 111,000 deaths?