The Illinois Department of Public Health announced today that there are 955 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 23 additional deaths. Currently, there are 4 counties in the “warning” level for high COVID levels; Union, Clark, Monroe, and St. Clair Counties.

In central Illinois, there were 51 new positive COVID tests on Monday with 22 of those in Sangamon County and 16 in Macon County. The seven-day positivity rates for the area as of July 11th are Christian County at 1.4%, Montgomery County at 2.9%, 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 163,703 cases, including 7,324 deaths. Labs over the last 24 hours have reported 29,745 tests for a total of 2,308,854 tests complete.  The seven-day positivity rate for all of Illinois from July 14th through the 20th is up .1% to 3.1%. 1,466 people in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19.  Of those, 320 patients were in the ICU and 142 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.