The coronavirus has killed an additional 81 people in Illinois and infected another 4,469, state health officials announced Sunday.
The coronavirus has killed an additional 81 people in Illinois and infected another 4,469, state health officials announced Sunday. That brings the state’s pandemic death toll to 16,755. Of Sunday’s fatalities,62 were reported in the Chicago area and included a Cook County man in his 30s. The new cases were detected among the latest batch of 45,465 tests processed by the Illinois Department of Public Health in the last day, which is the smallest batch processed in a 24-hour span since Oct.5. Over the last two weeks, the state has averaged nearly 75,000 tests each day. The state’s seven-day positivity rate — a figure experts use to gauge how rapidly the virus is spreading — remains at 8.3%, snapping a six-day streak of the state seeing that figure rise. That number has increased 1 1⁄2 percentage points over the last week since it checked in at 6.
