The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday reported 23 new cases of the novel coronavirus, and two deaths, raising totals over a holiday weekend during which Maine is poised to see a beefed-up mandate to wear masks in public.

Maine’s cumulative cases over the course of the pandemic rose to 3,397.

A total of 3,012 cases have been confirmed by testing and another 385 are considered probable cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.

New COVID-19 cases: 23.

Total cases: 3,397.

Active cases: 539.

The people reported deceased Saturday were a man in his 80s and a woman in her 60s, both from Cumberland County, the Maine CDC said.

Subtracting numbers of people who have recovered – 2,751 – and died, there were 539 active cases on Saturday.

Masks are essential to containing the spread of the virus, Mills said.

Despite some well-publicized resistance to masks in other states, Mills said she thought Mainers could get used to wearing them.

“It’s the same thing as saying, ‘No shirt, no service, no shoes, no service,’” Mills said on Wednesday.

County by county as of Saturday, there were 494 cumulative cases in Androscoggin, 24 in Aroostook, 1,793 in Cumberland, 40 in Franklin, 17 in Hancock, 146 in Kennebec, 25 in Knox, 24 in Lincoln, 42 in Oxford, 114 in Penobscot, three in Piscataquis, 34 in Sagadahoc, 30 in Somerset, 56 in Waldo, three in Washington, and 549 in York.

Women are still the majority of cases, at just under 52 percent.

Around the world on Saturday, there were 11.1 million cases of COVID-19 and nearly 528,000 deaths.

The United States had 2.8 million cases and more than 129,000 deaths?