Tuesday, the Macon County Health Department announced 16 newly-confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 654 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Macon County.
The Illinois Department of Public Health also Tuesday announced 1,549 new confirmed cases of coronavirus disease in Illinois, including 20 additional confirmed deaths.
Currently, IDPH is reporting a total of 196,948 cases, including 7,657 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 41,362 specimens for a total of 3,147,703. The preliminary seven-day statewide positivity for cases as a percent of total test from August 4 – August 10 is 4.1%. As of last night, 1,459 people in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 336 patients were in the ICU and 127 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.
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