New cases of COVID-19 skyrocketed to 4,004 Friday, the highest number since Jan. 29, with 21 more people dying from the respiratory disease, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported.
At the same time, the state hit another record for COVID-19 vaccinations after 164,462 more injections were administered Thursday. The seven-day average is 118,336.
The federal government has delivered 8,841,285 doses of vaccine to Illinois since distribution began in mid-December and 6,871,645 injections have been administered.
So far, 2,665,722 people have been fully vaccinated, or 20.9% of Illinois’s 12.7 million residents. Vaccines manufactured by Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. require two doses several weeks apart.
The number of patients in hospital with COVID-19 was 1,808 as of Thursday evening.
The state positivity rate for COVID-19 cases is 4.2% based on a seven-day mean.
The total number of cases stands at 1,273,2000 and 21,476 Illinoisans have died since the pandemic began.
Labs processed 101,737 virus tests in the last 24 hours.