IDPH reports 3,581 COVID-19 cases, 40 deaths

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 3,581 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the state’s total to 1,292,515.

The state’s death toll is at 21,609 after 40 more deaths were reported on Thursday.

The seven-day statewide positivity rate for cases as a percent of total tests is 4.2 percent, the same as last week. The preliminary seven-day statewide test positivity using the number of COVID-19 positive tests over total tests is 4.9 percent, a 0.1 percent increase from last week.

There were 105,661 tests processed over the past 24 hours. A total of 21,477,421 tests have been processed.

As of Wednesday night, 2,043 Illinoisans were in the hospital with COVID-19, an increase of 245 from last week. Of the patients in the hospital this week, 468 were in the ICU and 190 patients were on ventilators, the latter up 39 from last week.

Twenty-five percent of Illinois’ 32,247 hospital beds were available as of Thursday morning. Twenty-one percent of the state’s 3,382 ICU beds were available as were 75 percent of the state’s 5,701 ventilators.

A total of 7,612,405 COVID-19 vaccines have been administered. The seven-day rolling average of vaccines administered daily is approximately 129,317 doses, with 129,755 doses administered on Wednesday.

There have been 9,636,355 doses of COVID-19 vaccines delivered to Illinois providers, including in Chicago.