The Illinois Department of Public Health has announced 473 new cases of COVID-19 in Illinois including 3 new cases in Christian County. The Chris-Mont Emergency Management Agency confirmed that there were 3 new COVID-19 cases in Christian County including 1 at the Taylorville Correctional Facility along with 49 new negative tests. Macon County had 3 new positives and Moultrie has had 2 positives in the last 2 days to raise their total cases to 15.

The IDPH also announced 19 additional deaths in Illinois. This brings the total number of cases in Illinois of COVID to 133,016 including 6,326 deaths in 101 of the 102 counties in Illinois. Within the past 24 hours, labs have reported 18,627 specimens taken for a total of 1,209,612. The rolling positivity rate is 3%. 

For more information on COVID-19 and the spread you can visit www.coronavirus.illinois/gov or visit Taylorvilledailynews.com