The Illinois Department of Public Health announced today that there are 1598 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 23 additional deaths. The IDPH is also reporting 1 death in Montgomery County of a female who was over 100.
In central Illinois, there were 40 new positive COVID tests on Tuesday with 28 of those in Sangamon County and 4 in Christian 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 165,301 cases, including 7,347 deaths. Labs over the last 24 hours have reported 39,633 tests for a total of 2,348,487 tests complete. The seven-day positivity rate for all of Illinois from July 15th through the 21st is up .1% to 3.2%. 1,456 people in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 337 patients were in the ICU and 132 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.
