COVID Illinois Update: IL reports 1,549 new cases, 25 deaths

Tuesday, February 22, 2022
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois public health officials reported 1,549 new COVID cases and 25 related deaths Tuesday.

On Monday, 1,388 cases were reported, with 1,442 cases on Sunday and 1,853 cases on Saturday.
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There have been 3,019,951 total COVID cases, including 32,431 deaths in the state since the pandemic began.

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The seven-day statewide test positivity rate is 2.6%.
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Within the past 24 hours, laboratories have reported testing 73,402 new specimens for a total of 53,968,881 since the pandemic began.

As of Monday night, 1,331 patients in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19, Of those, 235 patients were in the ICU, and 136 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.



A total of 21,024,696 vaccine doses have been administered in Illinois as of Monday, and 63.51% of the state's population is fully vaccinated. The seven-day rolling average of vaccines administered daily is 18,543.
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