The state’s positivity rate was at 3.4 %
State health officials Monday announced 1,853 new coronavirus cases and 14 additional deaths. The new infections, which brought the state’s total to 303,394 cases, were found among the latest batch of 38,538 tests reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health, raising the state’s seven-day positivity rate — a figure experts use to gauge how rapidly the virus is spreading — to 3.
