Illinois COVID Update Today: IT Reports 26,062 New Cases, 197 Deaths in Last Week

CHICAGO (WLS) – Illinois Department of Public Health officials on Friday reported 26,062 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 197 related deaths over the past week.

There have been 1,564,386 cases of COVID in total, including 24,261 deaths in the state since the start of the pandemic.

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The preliminary positivity of the seven-day statewide test from Sept. 3-9 is 5.1%.

As of Friday, September 3, laboratories have reported having tested 578,943 specimens for a total of 29,756,833 since the start of the pandemic.

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As of Thursday evening, 2,346 Illinois patients are said to be in hospital with COVID-19. Of these, 549 patients were in intensive care and 311 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.

As of Wednesday, 14,149,453 vaccines were administered in Illinois. The seven-day moving average of vaccines administered daily is 20,514. As of last Friday, 143,596 vaccines have been administered.