CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The latest coronavirus numbers show why the full reopenings of the State of Illinois and City of Chicago later this week are right on time.
The COVID-19 positivity rates are the lowest they’ve been in Chicago and throughout the state since March of last year.
In Illinois, the seven-day average statewide positivity rate is 1.1 percent, the lowest since experts started tracking the metric. Meanwhile, in Chicago, the positivity rate has fallen to 1.6 percent.
Those kinds of numbers are what have led Governor Pritzker and Mayor Lightfoot to remove capacity limits and business restrictions starting Friday.
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According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, the state reported Tuesday 365 new and probable cases of COVID-19, including 11 additional deaths. As of Monday night, 791 individuals in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 226 patients were in the ICU and 117 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.
Additionally, more than 68 percent of Illinois adults have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose and more than 51 percent of Illinois adults are fully vaccinated, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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