Illinois reported 3,137 new cases of COVID-19 – a new single-day high for the state – and 105 additional deaths on Friday, the Illinois Department of Public Health announced.
Illinois has now seen 56,055 positive cases of the virus. A total of 2,457 people have died throughout the state. Illinois has tested 284,688 people.
Newly reported deaths included 69 in Cook County. Eleven people died in DuPage County, seven died in Will, four died in Kane and Lake, two died in Jackson and McHenry, and one each died in Adams, Clinton, Madison, Sangamon, St. Clair and Whiteside counties.
Results came back from 14,821 tests between Thursday and Friday, with 21.2% of those tests coming back positive. Illinois had been around a 15% positive rate earlier this week before a rise to 19% Thursday. The WHO recommends countries should be at 10% positive or less in order to reopen their economies.
As of Friday, Chicago has seen 22,718 confirmed cases of COVID-19, while the rest of Cook County has seen 15,950.
Lake County has seen 3,766 confirmed cases, DuPage 3,256, Will 2,617, Kane 1,677, McHenry 666, Kendall 281, Ogle 122, DeKalb 105, Whiteside 87, La Salle 54, Grundy 37, Lee 23, Bureau 10 and Carroll nine.
As of late Thursday night, Illinois had 4,900 COVID-19 patients in the hospital, of those, 1,263 are in the ICU and 777 are on ventilators. The state has 10,988 open hospital beds.
Source: The Daily Chronicle
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