COVID-19 cases have been slowly declining in central Illinois. Taking a look at COVID cases across central Illinois over the last month; Christian County has 12 new cases, Montgomery has had 3, Shelby has had 2, Sangamon has had 75, Macon has had 33, Moultrie has had 7 and Fayette County has had 2 new cases in the last month.  There have been 6 deaths in the last month in the Regional Radio listening area from COVID-19. 

Over the last 24 hours in Illinois, there have been 828 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 including 30 additional deaths. Moultrie County reported their 18th case, a woman in her teens who is recovering in isolation. Public health officials are notifying all close contacts. 

All in all in Illinois there have been 144,013 reported cases of COVID-19 with 6,591 deaths in 101 of the 102 counties of Illinois. Labs have reported 33,090 tests ran in the last 24 hours with a total of 1,636,055 completed tests. The rolling positivity rate in Illinois over the last 7 days is 2.6%.