SPRINGFIELD (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — The Illinois Department of Public Health announced Sunday 1,562 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Illinois, including 18 additional confirmed deaths.
In Cook County, women each in their 30s, 60s and 70s along with a man in his 60s, two men in their 70s and three men in their 80s succumbed to the coronavirus.
Within the past 24 hours, laboratories have reported 37,089 specimens for a total of 3,366,851. The preliminary seven-day statewide positivity for cases as a percent of total test from Aug. 9 through Aug. 15 is 4.1%. As of last night, 1,581 people in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 345 patients were in the ICU and 116 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.
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IDPH currently is reporting a total of 206,081 cases, including 7,744 deaths, in 102 counties in Illinois. The age of cases ranges from younger than one to older than 100 years.
