The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 2,598 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday, with 53 additional deaths attributed to the virus and nearly 80,000 doses of vaccine administered “the previous day.
According to the most recent IDPH data, new and probable cases of coronavirus have raised the total statewide to 1,160,523 since the pandemic began. Additional deaths bring the state to 19,926 during the pandemic.
In the past 24 hours, state laboratories have reported 84,990 new specimens for testing. The state’s seven-day continuous positivity rate for all COVID tests dropped to 2.9% and the positivity rate for individuals dropped to 3.6%.
There were 1,892 individuals hospitalized due to COVID-19 in Illinois on Saturday night, with 425 of these patients in intensive care units and 202 patients on ventilators.
According to IDPH data, a total of 2,125,375 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were delivered to providers in Illinois and Chicago, with another 445,200 doses allocated to the federal government’s program to assist long-term care facilities in vaccinating teams and patients. This brings the total number of doses sent to Illinois to 2,570,575.
On Friday, 79,704 doses were administered, according to IDPH. The state administered 1,724,187 total doses of the vaccine, including 238,075 in long-term care facilities.
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