1,382 New COVID-19 Cases in Illinois, 8 Additional Deaths

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A woman in her 20s is among the eight Illinoisans who died of COVID-19 on Sunday, as the state announced 1,382 new cases of the virus.

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Nearly all of the deaths reported Sunday occurred in Cook County, including the woman in her 20s, a woman and man in their 40s, a man in his 50s and three people in their 60s. In Pulaski County, a man in his 60s died.

According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, there have been 194,080 total COVID-19 cases reported and 7,636 deaths across 102 counties in Illinois.

Labs statewide over the past 24 hours tested 41,354 specimens, according to the IDPH, bringing the statewide total to 3,073,988.

Sunday’s case total comes a day after the IDPH reported the state’s highest single-day increase of COVID-19 cases in more than two months: 2,190 cases.

Illinois also had more than 2,000 new cases Friday, which marked the first time the state topped that mark since May 24. With case totals increases across the state, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced new rules and fines Friday for businesses and schools that repeatedly ignore COVID-19 restrictions and mask requirements.

“This is a make-or-break moment for the state of Illinois, for making sure people are doing everything they can to mitigate, to reduce the spread,” he said. “This is a moment for us to enforce the masking requirement across the state.”

According to the IDPH, the state’s seven-day positivity percentage from Aug. 2-8 is 4.1%. As of Saturday, 1,488 Illinois residents were being treated for COVID-19 in hospitals, according to health officials. Of those, 322 were in the ICU and 114 were on ventilators.

Note: This story was originally published Saturday. It has been updated to reflect new COVID-19 figures released Sunday by the IDPH.

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