by Sarah Craighead Dedmon

Four more people are hospitalized and two more Washington County people have died with COVID-19, bringing those cumulative totals to 87 and 41 respectively for the week ending Saturday, Jan. 8, according to Jan. 10 data released by Maine Center for Disease Control on their COVID-19 page. The county reports 71 new cases of COVID-19 for the week ending Saturday, Jan. 8, bringing the county’s cumulative case count to 2,861.