Over 2 million COVID-19 vaccines now administered in Illinois

Illinois has surpassed 2 million total COVID-19 vaccines administered.

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported Friday that 2,060,706 vaccines have been administered, including 271,142 at long-term care facilities. The seven-day rolling average of vaccines administered daily is approximately 59,460 doses, with a single-day high of 83,673 administered on Thursday.

There have been 2,186,775 doses of COVID-19 vaccines delivered to Illinois providers, including in Chicago. An additional 445,200 doses have been allocated to the federal government’s Pharmacy Partnership Program for long-term care facilities.

The department reported 2,219 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the total to 1,170,902.

The state’s death toll is at 20,192 after 63 more deaths were reported on Friday.

The seven-day statewide positivity rate for cases as a percent of total tests is 2.8 percent, a 0.3 percent drop from last week. The preliminary seven-day statewide test positivity using the number of COVID-19 positive tests over total tests is 3.3 percent, a 0.4 percent decrease from last week.

There were 85,963 tests processed over the past 24 hours. A total of 17,474,319 tests have been processed.

As of Thursday night, 1,596 Illinoisans were in the hospital with COVID-19, a decrease of 319 from last week. Of the patients in the hospital this week, 366 were in the ICU and 190 patients were on ventilators, the latter a decrease of 21 from last week.

Thirty-one percent of Illinois’ 32,607 hospital beds were available as of Friday morning. Twenty-six percent of the state’s 3,308 ICU beds were available as were 77 percent of the state’s 5,654 ventilators.