Most of the state’s metrics kept trending in the right direction Saturday as they have since the holidays.
More than 103,000 Illinois residents so far have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, public health officials said Saturday, as the state reported COVID-19 has killed an additional 130 people and spread to 5,343 more. The new cases were diagnosed among 102,372 tests submitted to the Illinois Department of Public Health, keeping most of the state’s metrics trending in the right direction as they have since the holidays. Illinois’ seven-day average positivity rate fell for an eighth straight day, now down to 6.3%, the lowest that indicator of transmission has been since Oct.26. Graph not displaying properly? Click here. And COVID-19 hospitalizations are as low as they’ve been since Nov.1, with 3,406 beds occupied statewide as of Friday night. Of those patients,711 were receiving intensive care and 379 were on ventilators.
