The average statewide positivity rate has fallen to 6.8%, its lowest point since Oct. 29.
The coronavirus has killed an additional 66 Illinois residents and spread to 3,293 more, state public health officials announced Saturday. That’s the smallest number of new COVID-19 cases announced in a day by the Illinois Department of Public Health since Oct.19, mostly because laboratories processed only 54,462 tests on Christmas — far below the state’s daily testing average of more than 91,000 over the last month. Despite the holiday testing dip, the two-month low case count kept Illinois’ pandemic numbers trending downward following a record-breaking autumn resurgence. The average statewide positivity rate, which indicates how rapidly the virus is spreading, has fallen to 6.8%, its lowest point since Oct.
