IDPH announces 3,629 new COVID-19 cases, 27 deaths

The Illinois Department of Public Health announced 3,629 new cases of COVID-19 Saturday, including 27 additional deaths.The total follows two consecutive days of single-day records for new infections and continues a troubling trend that led Gov. JB Pritzker to declare that the state was amid “a new wave” of the virus.The state’s seven-day rolling positivity rate ticked up to 5.2%. Rates rose in nearly all the 11 regions the state uses to locally track COVID-19 […]