SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — If current trends hold, it will be two weeks ago this Friday since Illinois saw at least 1,000 new coronavirus cases over a 24-hour period.
The Illinois Department of Public Health on Thursday reported 593 new cases from Wednesday to Thursday.
The organization also announced 55 new deaths.
Labs across the state took in 25,504 specimens in that time frame.
The state’s rolling seven-day positivity rate stayed at 3%.
Total numbers for the state since the pandemic began now sit at 134,778 cases, 6,537 deaths, and 1,283,832 tests performed.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker said just because the numbers look good does not mean now is the time to stop safe practices.
“I do worry people will relax the mitigations we’ve asked them to follow. The masking, the hand washing, the keeping physically distant,” he said.
“I’m very proud of the people of Illinois and how they’ve reacted over the course of the last three months, doing exactly the right thing.
“It’s led to Illinois becoming one of the best states in the nation, in terms of the rates of cases, hospitalizations, ICU beds, and deaths going down.”
All four regions of the state continued to meet the criteria to move to phase four of Restore Illinois.
