SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Department of Public Health announced over 6,000 new COVID-19 cases Sunday, and 79 additional deaths.
A Chicago-area hospital plans to resume giving health care workers shots after temporarily pausing the program when four staff members had reactions. One of them had a severe reaction.
From Saturday to Sunday, laboratories reported 78,079 specimens. As of Saturday night, 4,389 in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 991 patients were in the ICU and 546 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.
The preliminary seven-day statewide positivity rate is 7.8%.
Region 2, which includes Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford Counties, has a seven-day rolling positivity rate of 9.4%. The region has been under the 12% threshold for eight days.
Region 2 has seen six days of COVID-19 patient decreases. ICU bed usage has been over the 20% threshold for two consecutive days.
A more comprehensive look at state and local COVID data can be found HERE.
