BELLEVILLE (KMOX) - St. Clair County has recorded its third case of COVID-19. The case was included in Illinois' daily update on the spread of the virus, he's a man in his 50s but the county isn't saying much else.
Related: Pritzker considers shelter in place order similar to Italy to fight COVID-19 spreadThe state now has 288 confirmed cases in 17 counties, including St. Clair and Madison. "You can weather this illness, you don't need a test. Assume you have COVID and stay home. Stay home and don't transmit it to another person," said Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health. "We need to keep these hospital beds for critically ill people, and not for people who would have gotten well on their own at home."Ngozi says to call your doctor if you start feeling ill -- don't just show up at your doctor's office or local emergency room, especially if your symptoms are mild."There's no specific medicine, so if you can stay home and weather it out, you are doing a tremendous part in creating a bed for someone who really needs it and whose life can be saved," Ngozi said.
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