CHICAGO - The Illinois COVID-19 numbers are skyrocketing much like the rest of the country. In fact, Illinois leads the country in confirmed COVID-19 cases over the past seven days with 50,007.
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Texas follows with 46,406, then Wisconsin with 35,728, California 31,297 and Florida 30,036. Over the last seven days throughout the U.S. there have been 629,390 confirmed COVID-19 cases with 233,129 deaths.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued a warning today that further statewide mitigations may come if the trend of COVID-19 cases and deaths continue at the present pace. Illinois has topped the 10,000-death mark with COVID-19-related causes. Today, there were 9,935 new COVID-10 cases reported in Illinois and the lowest positivity case number for seven days is Region 6 at 10 percent. Region 4, which encompasses Madison County has a 10.7 percent positivity rate, while the top percentage is Region 1 with 15.8 percent.
Region 3 and Region 4 of Restore Illinois, which encompasses the Riverbender region's counties of Jersey, Greene, Calhoun, Macoupin and Madison counties, are both under state restrictions because of high COVID numbers.
On a positive note, the governor said with the increased testing people who are infected are being discovered in quicker fashion.
COVID-19 testing is easy to find now, Pritzker said and anyone with symptoms should be tested and if positive, quarantined.
