SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WBBM NEWSRADIO) – The Illinois Department of Public Health announced Tuesday that Region 10 (suburban Cook County) is moving into Phase 4 of the Restore Illinois Plan effective immediately.
Phase 4 guidelines include:
Restaurants and Bars
• Indoor dining and drinking now permitted for parties of up to 10 people
• Seated areas should be arranged so that tables allow for 6 feet between parties; impermeable barriers may be installed between booths which are less than 6 feet apart
Retail and Service Counter
• Continue capacity limit of no more than 50% occupancy
Personal Care
• Continue capacity limit of no more than 50% occupancy
Indoor/Outdoor Recreation
• Reopening select indoor recreation facilities (e.g., bowling alleys, skating rinks); indoor playgrounds and trampoline parks should remain closed
• Indoor recreation to operate at lesser of 50 customers or 50% of facility capacity
Museums
• Capacity limit of no more than 25% occupancy
• Guided tours should be limited to 50 or fewer people per group
Meetings and Social Events
• Limit to the lesser of 50 people or 50% of room capacity
• Multiple groups may meet in the same facility if they are socially distanced and in separate rooms
A Phase 4 Guidelines Overview can be found on the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity website.
If all the mitigation metrics continue to improve, Region 8 (DuPage and Kane) and Region 9 (Lake and McHenry) will move into Phase 4 of the Restore Illinois Plan on Wednesday, Feb. 3.
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To move from Tier 1 into Phase 4, the following is required:
• Test positivity rate ≤ 6.5% for three consecutive days (7-day average); AND
• Staffed ICU bed availability ≥ 20% for three consecutive days (7-day average); AND
• No sustained increase in COVID patients in hospital (7-day average for 7 of 10 days)
IDPH also reported Tuesday 2,304 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 in Illinois, including 47 additional deaths.
Currently, IDPH is reporting a total of 1,130,917 cases, including 19,306 deaths, in 102 counties in Illinois.
As of Monday night, 2,447 individuals in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 533 patients were in the ICU and 265 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.
The preliminary seven-day statewide positivity for cases as a percent of total test from Jan. 26–Feb. 1, 2021 is 3.9 percent.
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A total of 1,455,825 doses of vaccine have been delivered to providers in Illinois, including Chicago. In addition, approximately 496,100 doses total have been allocated to the federal government’s Pharmacy Partnership Program for long-term care facilities. This brings the total Illinois doses to 1,951,925.
A total of 1,028,969 vaccines have been administered in Illinois as of Monday night, including 163,592 for long-term care facilities.
The 7-day rolling average of vaccines administered daily is 44,139 doses. On Monday, a total of 32,559 doses were administered.
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