COVID update: Illinois reports 1,827 new cases, 14 new deaths

CHICAGO (WLS) — Illinois reported 1,827 new COVID instances and 14 new deaths Thursday,

All the Chicago space is seeing a number of the lowest COVID neighborhood transmission ranges because the begin of the pandemic. Cook dinner County and all surrounding counties are all within the inexperienced low-transmission group. The final time it was that low was earlier this yr, in Could.

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The Illinois Dept. of Public Well being says “each day deaths reported on weekends and at first of the week could also be low” and “these deaths might be captured in subsequent days.”

There have been at the very least 3,760,119 whole COVID instances within the state because the begin of the pandemic and at the very least 34,999 associated deaths.

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As of Wednesday evening, 866 sufferers in Illinois had been reported to be within the hospital with COVID-19. Of these, 115 sufferers had been within the ICU, and 36 sufferers with COVID-19 had been on ventilators.

The each day case price per 100,000 inhabitants is at 16.3.

The video within the participant above is from a earlier report.