The Illinois Department of Public Health announced today that there are 1,173 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 6 additional deaths. The weekend saw a spike in cases in Central Illinois though and the region is back in the gray “Phase 3” area for one category-hospital admissions over the last 28 days. Hospital admissions are stable though so at least right now that does not seem to be a concern for going back a phase.

In central Illinois, there were 78 new positive COVID tests over the weekend with 51 of those in Sangamon County and 13 in Montgomery County. The seven-day positivity rates for the area as of July 11th are Christian County at 1.4%, Montgomery County at 4.8%, Shelby County at .5%, Sangamon County at 2.7%, Macon County at 1.3%, Moultrie County at 2.3% and Fayette County at 1.3%.

IDPH is reporting a total of 162,748cases, including 7,301 deaths. Labs over the last 24 hours have reported 34,598 tests for a total of 2,279,109 tests complete.  The seven-day positivity rate for all of Illinois from July 13th through the 19th is 3%. 1,410 people in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19.  Of those, 308 patients were in the ICU and 133 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.

For health questions about COVID-19 call 1-800-889-3931 or email dph.sick@illinois.gov. For a complete look at breakdowns of the Regional Radio listening area, visit taylorvilledailynews.com and click on the “current coronavirus cases by county” icon at the top of the page.