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Illinois Reaches New High for Coronavirus Cases

 

        

 By: John Raspante

    Illinois has just passed a total of 250,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of Monday, September 7th.

    The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) reported 1,381 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 after receiving the results of 28,975 tests in the 24 hours leading up to Monday. This brings the state’s rolling seven-day positivity rate up to 4.2%.

    Illinois has now had a total of over 254,000 cases of the novel coronavirus and 8,179 people have died. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the state has administered a total of 4,447,347 tests. According to John Sahly from The Herald News, “As of late Sunday [September 6th], Illinois had over 1,484 COVID-19 patients in the hospital. Of those, 352 were in intensive care units, and 137 were on ventilators.”

    On the local level, Will county will keep its new mitigations per the IDPH’s guidelines. Two weeks ago, on August 25th, Governor Pritzker held a press conference at the Will County Health Department to announce the IDPH’s new mitigations in Region 7, the Will and Kankakee county areas. These new restrictions, which reduced gatherings to 25 people (or 25% capacity) and closed all indoor service in bars and restaurants, were put in place due to the region reaching an 8% positivity rate for three days. These new mitigations were said to stay in place for two weeks, and would either go away if the positivity rate dropped below 6.5%, stay in place if it stayed between 6.5% and 8%, or the restrictions would heighten if the rate stayed at 8% or higher.

    Currently, as we begin to move past that two-week threshold, the positivity rate has dropped to 7.5%, which will keep these new mitigations in place across Will and Kankakee counties.

    To see how Region 7 and other regions across the state are doing, you can see the full IDPH dashboard here.

Image courtesy of Charles Rex Arbogast / Associated Press.

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