Springfield, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Department of Public Health is reporting 2,257 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 30 confirmed deaths. The numbers released Thursday reveal that as of late Wednesday, 1,713 people in Illinois were reported hospitalized with COVID-19. Of those, 400 patients were being treated in intensive care units, with 155 patients on ventilators. More than 8,500 people in Illinois have died of COVID-19 since the pandemic’s outbreak earlier this year. The state has reported more than 281,000 positive cases out of nearly 5.3 million coronavirus tests administered. Thursday’s confirmed cases were the result of 62,071 tests over the past 24 hours, putting the state’s seven-day positivity rate at 3.5%.
