Health officials on Sunday announced an additional one person has died due to the coronavirus, making it the lowest reported COVID-19 death day since March 21 — three days after the state recorded its first death.
The one fatality — a 90-year-old man in Bond County — brings the state’s death toll to 7,398.
Though the state’s coronavirus fatality rate has remained relatively low this month compared to the height of the pandemic in May, Illinois continued its upward trend of new coronavirus infections Sunday as health officials announced an additional 1,541 people have tested positive for the virus.
That marks the state’s fifth straight day with a four-digit daily coronavirus caseload, making it the longest such stretch since the a peak month of May. Illinois has recorded at least 1,000 new cases in a day 13 times this month. In June, the state saw only two days with four-digit caseloads.
The new cases were confirmed among the latest batch of 40,844 test results reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health, raising the state’s rolling positivity rate over the past week to 3.7% — a .7% uptick from last Sunday and one percentage point more than two weeks ago.
As of Saturday night, 1,394 coronavirus patients were hospitalized in Illinois, with 345 of those patients in intensive care units and 119 on ventilators, officials said.
