Illinois COVID Update: IL reports 1,993 cases, 6 deaths

Thursday, July 22, 2021
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois Department of Public Health officials reported 1,993 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and six related deaths Thursday.

The single-day case increase is the highest in the state since May 7. There have been 1,406,459 total COVID cases, including 23,398 deaths in the state since the pandemic began.
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The preliminary seven-day statewide test positivity from July 15-22 is at 3.3%.

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Within the past 24 hours, laboratories have reported testing 52,707 specimens for a total of 26,497,201 since the pandemic began.

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As of Wednesday night, 628 patients in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 119 patients were in the ICU and 39 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.

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A total of 13,038,137 vaccines have been administered in Illinois as of Wednesday. The seven-day rolling average of vaccines administered daily is 20,340. There were 24,432 vaccines administered in Illinois Wednesday.
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