As of Wednesday, the Macon County Health Department has announced 20 newly-confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number to 523 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Macon County.
Meanwhile, the Illinois Department of Public Health Wednesday announced 1,759 new confirmed cases of coronavirus disease in Illinois, including 30 additional confirmed deaths.
Currently, IDPH is reporting a total of 186,471 cases, including 7,573 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 46,668 specimens for a total of 2,896,063. The preliminary seven-day statewide positivity for cases as a percent of total test from July 29 – August 4 is 3.9%. As of last night, 1,552 people in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 368 patients were in the ICU and 129 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.
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