State Smashes One-Day COVID-19 Case Record With 9,935 As Death Toll Surpasses 10K
The state’s COVID-19 death toll surpassed 10,000 Thursday as the number of new confirmed cases smashed a one-day record by more than 2,000. The 9,935…
COVID-19 Hospitalizations Continue to Reach New Second-Wave Highs
Hospitalizations for COVID-19 continue to climb as the entire state is either subject to increased mitigation measures or will be starting Wednesday. A…
East-Central Illinois Makes 10 Of 11 Regions Mitigated as Restaurants Push Back
Illinois is down to one region that is not facing increased COVID-19 mitigations after east-central Illinois’ Region 6 reached an 8 percent positivity…
Mitigations Triggered In 9th Of 11 Regions As COVID-19 Rages
A ninth of the state’s 11 COVID-19 reopening regions triggered increased mitigations Thursday as the governor touted the release of federal funding for…
GOP Pushes Back On Pritzker’s Mitigation Efforts
Republicans in the Illinois House and Senate pushed back Wednesday against Gov. JB Pritzker’s efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, arguing that…
Two More Regions To See COVID-19 Mitigations As Pace Of Hospitalization Growth Quickens
Six of the state’s 11 coronavirus mitigation regions will be under escalated restrictions starting Wednesday as hospitalizations for COVID-19 show a…
Number Of Regions Slated For Added COVID-19 Mitigations Jumps To 4
Two more of the 11 regions of the state’s COVID-19 mitigation plan have reached a threshold necessitating increased restrictions, joining two other…
‘A High Degree Of Suffering In Silence’: Opioid Overdoses On The Rise In Illinois
SPRINGFIELD – Opioid overdoses are on the rise in Illinois, according to state health officials. The year 2019 saw a 22% increase in opioid-related emergency room visits compared to the prior year — and a 3% increase in overdose deaths, from 2,167 in 2018 to 2,233 in 2019. Preliminary data for the first half of […]
Region 4 Nearing Lifted Mitigations; New State Unemployment Claims Rise 23%
Region 4 of the state’s COVID-19 mitigation plan saw its test positivity rate dip again Thursday, putting it one day away from having mitigations lifted…
Pritzker Issues Halloween Guidance, Says No To Exempting Counties From Regional Mitigations
The state announced Halloween COVID-19 guidance encouraging social distancing while trick-or-treating, and the governor took questions in a virtual news…
COVID-19 Update: Pritzker Staffer Tests Positive; Region 1 Sees Another Positivity Rate Increase
A staffer who recently traveled with Gov. JB Pritzker has tested positive for COVID-19, prompting the governor and others to self-isolate for a period…
Pritzker Again Defends High School Sports Decision, Touts Testing Capacity
After weekend protests against postponing many fall high school sports, Gov. JB Pritzker again defended the decision.
News Around Illinois – August 21, 2020
Illinois Reports 1,832 COVID-19 Cases And 27 Deaths SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois Department of Public Health is reporting 1,832 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 27 deaths. The number of confirmed cases on Thursday come from the state conducting 51,612 tests in the previous 24 hours. The state now has reported 213,721 cases and 7,833 fatalities. […]
New COVID-19 Health Restrictions For The Metro East
The state has placed tighter rules on a portion of southwest Illinois after seeing more community spread of the coronavirus disease. But Gov. J.B….
Pritzker: All Regions Of The State ‘Going The Wrong Direction’
Illinois has now recorded more than 200,000 cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic first arrived in the state.