SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The Illinois Department of Public Health is reporting 1,381 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, and eight deaths.
Monday’s reported fatalities bring the state’s death toll due to the virus to 8,179 since the start of the pandemic. There have been 250,961 confirmed coronavirus cases during the same period.
Sunday through Monday, laboratories reported 28,975 tests of specimens for a total of 4,447,347 tests conducted in Illinois. That brings the seven-day statewide positivity rate for cases as a percent of total tests to 4.2%.
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