COVID update: Illinois reports 1,770 new cases, 1 new death

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois reported 1,770 new COVID cases and one new death Monday.

The Chicago area is seeing some of the lowest COVID community transmission levels since the start of the pandemic. Cook County and most surrounding counties are all in the green low-transmission group. Lake County is in the medium-transmission group.

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The Illinois Dept. of Public Health says "daily deaths reported on weekends and at the beginning of the week may be low" and "those deaths will be captured in subsequent days."

There have been at least 3,765,864 total COVID cases in the state since the start of the pandemic and at least 35,029 related deaths.

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As of Sunday night, 869 patients in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 100 patients were in the ICU, and 34 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.

The daily case rate per 100,000 population is at 12.2.

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