Click here for the latest coronavirus news, which the BDN has made free for the public. You can support our critical reporting on the coronavirus by purchasing a digital subscription or donating directly to the newsroom. More than a dozen people who are residents of other states have tested positive for the new coronavirus in Maine, a top state health official said Thursday. Those 17 people are not included in Maine’s 560 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, according to Nirav Shah, the director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.