Maine reported 11 more COVID-19 deaths Wednesday and added 1,930 cases as the spike from a long backlog of positive omicron tests began to level off and hospitalizations fell again.

There are now 211 people hospitalized with the virus in Maine, with 41 in critical care and 16 on ventilators. In mid-January, the state was at record-high hospitalizations with more than 400 people requiring hospital care.

The people most recently reported to have died included nine men and two women. Three were over age 80, four were in their 70s, three in their 60s and one in their 50s. Two each were from York, Penobscot, Kennebec, Aroostook and Somerset counties, and one from Lincoln County. 

Maine has now seen 222,925 coronavirus cases and 1,971 resulting deaths since the pandemic began nearly two years ago. The statewide vaccination rate is steady at just over 77%. 

The state Center for Disease Control and Prevention also issued a weekly update of wastewater testing data on Tuesday. Officials can gauge the “burden” of COVID-19 in different communities by monitoring for concentrations of the virus’s RNA molecules in sewage. 

The data shows that wastewater flows across the state have roughly average or below-average virus concentrations relative to the rest of the country. One outlier was Presque Isle, with a Feb. 16 sample that had a higher virus load than 96% of samples nationwide in the past six weeks.