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Two more Mainers have died as health officials on Saturday reported another 542 coronavirus cases across the state. Saturday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 97,725, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from 97,183 on Friday. Of those, 69,647 have been confirmed positive, while 28,078 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported. Two men in their 80s from Penobscot County have succumbed to the virus, bringing the statewide death toll to 1,095. The number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the past 14 days statewide is 6,257.