Health official calls 228 new coronavirus cases in Sangamon County ’shocking’

Sangamon County officials reported 228 new coronavirus cases Thursday, topping the previous daily record of new infections by more than 100 and bringing the case total during the pandemic to more than 5,000.The previous high number of cases in a day came just five days earlier — 123 cases reported on Saturday.”It was just shocking to see that kind of number,” said Gail O’Neill, director of the Sangamon County Department of Public Health, on Thursday. But she also […]