Illinois COVID: IL reports 19,237 new cases, 34 deaths

Monday, January 10, 2022
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois public health officials reported 19,237 new COVID cases and 34 related deaths Monday.

On Saturday, 29,011 new cases were reported, with 29,585 cases reported Sunday.
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There have been 2,460,270 total COVID cases, including 28,568 deaths in the state since the pandemic began.

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The seven-day statewide test positivity rate is 17.3%.

Within the past 24 hours, laboratories have reported testing 153,056 new specimens for a total of 46,827,777 since the pandemic began.
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As of Sunday night, 7,114 patients in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 1,139 patients were in the ICU and 644 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.



A total of 19,686,548 vaccine doses have been administered in Illinois as of Sunday, and 61.07% of the state's population is fully vaccinated. The seven-day rolling average of vaccines administered daily is 54,224.

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