The Illinois Department of Public Health on Saturday reported 2,598 new cases of coronavirus with 53 additional deaths attributed to the virus and administering nearly 80,000 doses of vaccine the previous day.
According to the latest IDPH data, the new and probable cases of coronavirus bring the total amount of the country to 1,160,523 since the pandemic started. The additional deaths bring the state to 19,926 during the pandemic.
In the past 24 hours, state laboratories reported 84,990 new samples for testing. The state’s seven – day running positivity rate for all COVID tests dropped to 2.9% and the positivity rate for individuals to 3.6%.
There were 1892 individuals admitted to the hospital due to COVID-19 in Illinois as of Saturday night, with 425 of the patients in intensive care units and 202 patients in ventilators.
According to IDPH data, a total of 2,125,375 doses of COVID-19 vaccine were delivered to providers in Illinois and Chicago, with another 445,200 doses allocated to the federal government’s program to help long-term care facilities in staff and patients. ent. That brings the total number of doses sent to Illinois to 2,570,575.
According to IDPH, 79,704 doses were administered on Friday. The state administered 1,724,187 total doses of the vaccine, including 238,075 at long-term care institutions.
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