Hospitalizations for COVID-19 crept up Thursday morning, but there were no new deaths reported, according to the latest data report from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

After dropping for several days, hospitalizations jumped by six Thursday to 121. Seventeen patients are in intensive care and four require ventilators. 

The CDC reported 430 new cases of the virus on Thursday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 268,386. Of those, 193,449 are listed as confirmed and 74,937 are described as probable.

There were no deaths Thursday, leaving the total number of deaths since the pandemic started in Maine at 2,409.