The Illinois Department of Public Health Tuesday announced 1,471 new confirmed cases of coronavirus disease in Illinois, including 19 additional confirmed deaths.
The Macon County Health Department meanwhile on Tuesday announced 15 additional confirmed cases in the county, bringing the total to 503.
Currently, IDPH is reporting a total of 184,712 cases statewide, including 7,545 deaths, in 102 counties in Illinois. The age of cases ranges from younger than one to older than 100 years. Within the past 24 hours, laboratories have reported 42,598 specimens for a total of 2,849,395. The preliminary seven-day statewide positivity for cases as a percent of total test from July 28 – August 3 is 3.9%. As of last night, 1,496 people in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 365 patients were in the ICU and 125 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.
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