
It’s largely different from the list issued last week, when 13 counties were put at warning level.Ĭass County in central Illinois and Perry County in southern Illinois have appeared on the warning list three weeks in a row, while Grundy and Union counties made their second consecutive appearance on the weekly list on Friday. The counties on the state’s latest warning list are Bureau, Cass, Clinton, Franklin, Greene, Grundy, Hancock, Jefferson, Kane, LaSalle, Moultrie, Perry, Union and Will.
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Health care providers must make COVID-19 diagnostic testing available for free to individuals regardless of insurance or immigration status. IDPH is reporting a total of 3,462,948 cases. nothing in Illinois or federal law that prohibits an employer from requiring a doctor’s note or COVID-19 test before an employee returns to work. On Monday, some Illinois providers began giving the first COVID-19 vaccines to children under the age of 5. The warning level designation means those counties have surpassed a threshold for at least two coronavirus indicators, such as the number of deaths, weekly hospital admissions for people with COVID-19-like illness and availability of intensive care beds. As has been the case throughout the pandemic, the Illinois State University will continue to follow the most up-to-date health and safety guidance and will make adjustments accordingly when necessary. The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 27,543 new cases of COVID-19 in the state, including 48 deaths since last Friday. COVID-19 shots for Illinois’ youngest residents begin. Illinois has now entered the Bridge to Phase V of Restore Illinois. On May 29, 2020, the Governor announced Restore Illinois, a comprehensive phased plan to safely reopen the States economy, get people back to work, and ease social restrictions. Chicago Tribune staff Friday Illinois puts 14 counties on COVID-19 warning list, blames local officials for failing to enforce social distancing and isolation ordersįourteen of Illinois’ 102 counties were deemed at “warning level” for a resurgence of COVID-19 on Friday, with the state blaming the virus’s spread in part on poor messaging from local elected officials in “communities where there is little public concern for consequences or enforcement” of social distancing and isolation orders. On March 9, 2020, Governor Pritzker declared all counties in Illinois a disaster area in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The state has now logged 204,519 cases overall, and has reported 7,726 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
