IDPH reports 4,000 new COVID-19 cases, 46 deaths

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported another 4,000 cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing the total to 382,985.

The state’s death toll is at 9,568 after 46 more deaths were reported on Tuesday.

The seven-day statewide positivity rate for cases as a percent of total tests is 6.4 percent, a 0.1 percent increase from Monday.

There were 62,074 more tests processed during the past day. A total of 7,388,290 tests have been processed.

As of Monday night, 2,758 Illinoisans were in the hospital with COVID-19, an increase of 497 from last week. Of the patients in the hospital this week, 595 were in the ICU and 241 patients were on ventilators.

Thirty-five percent of Illinois’ 35,080 hospital beds were available as of Tuesday morning. Thirty-eight percent of the state’s 3,789 ICU beds were available as were 77 percent of the state’s 5,763 ventilators.