IL COVID-19 Update: Daily Cases Cut In Half Since Friday

The Illinois Department of Public Health is reporting a sharp drop in daily COVID-19 cases.  About 47-hundred positive tests were reported Monday.  That’s less than half the amount of daily cases reported on Friday, and about 30-thousand less than this time last month.  The statewide positivity rate is about seven percent, which means less than one-in-ten people who test for the virus actually have it. The trend is not only happening in Illinois, as new cases of COVID-19 are falling in 48 other states as well. New cases per day have tanked by nearly half-a-million nationwide since mid-January, the curve trending downward in every state but Maine.