The total number of cases in Illinois now stands at 1,146,341, with a total of 19,633 deaths, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the past 24 hours, laboratories reported 81,550 specimens for a total of 16,636,585.
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As of Saturday night, 2,188 patients in Illinois were reported hospitalized with COVID-19. Of these, 507 patients were in the ICU and 245 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilator.
The preliminary seven-day statewide test positivity from January 31 to February. 5 is 3.4%.
First case of COVID-19 variant identified in Lake County
The first case of a COVID-19 variant was reported in Lake County, according to a statement from the Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center.
According to the statement, this B.1.1.7 variant was first identified in the United Kingdom. Lake County Health officials said the infected person recently traveled internationally and was quarantined upon return.
“We expect to see more cases of these new variants in Lake County as they seem to spread more easily and more quickly than other variants,” says Dr. Sana Ahmed, medical epidemiologist with the Lake County Health Department.
Currently, studies suggest that the currently available COVID-19 vaccines will be effective against the new strains, the statement said.
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A total of 1,635,925 doses of vaccine have been delivered to healthcare providers in Illinois, including Chicago, with an additional 496,100 doses assigned to federal government partners for long-term care facilities, bringing the total number delivered in Illinois to 2,132,025.
IDPH reports that a total of 1,342,857 vaccine doses have been administered, including 188,351 in long-term facilities. The seven-day rolling average of the vaccines administered is 51,553.
The IDPH says vaccine distribution numbers are reported in real-time and vaccine delivery lags by as much as 72 hours.
The test locations for the corona virus in Chicago are closed from Friday due to “bad weather”.
City-operated test sites will remain closed Friday through Wednesday, the city reports.
Thursday’s storm will be followed by a deep freeze that will stretch into next week. Temperatures should not exceed single digits, and chills can reach minus 30 degrees in what city officials called a “ polar thrust. ”
Anyone who needs to be tested in the next few days should contact their healthcare provider.
“In all fairness, from a safety perspective, we don’t want the staff and volunteers to be potentially exposed,” says Dr. Allison Arwady, CDPH. And walk-ups are available on the site. We don’t want people to come up. ‘
The frigid conditions also prompted The Loretto Hospital on the West Side to relocate its indoor walking tests.
“We are actually converting our ground floor physiotherapy room, which is quite large and very spacious, into a COVID testing room,” said Afya Khan, infection control physician at Loretto Hospital.
The city’s in-house vaccination sites will remain open, as will the mass vaccination site at the Lake County Fairgrounds in Grayslake. Officials there said the need to change staff regularly out of the cold could cause delays.
Professor Hani Mahmassani of Northwestern University, an expert in transportation and logistics, said vaccination clinics are likely to see some no-shows.
“There will be staffing issues,” she explained, “and also no shows in terms of the patients. And in some cases you don’t want patients to come out with this again, especially for some older people. vaccinated. “
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The deaths reported by Sunay include:
– Bond County: 1 man in his 80’s
– Champaign County: 1 male 70s
– Cook County: 1 woman 50s, 1 woman 60s, 2 men 60s, 2 women 70s, 1 woman 80s, 3 men 80s
– Cumberland County: 1 man in his 70s
– DuPage County: 1 female 1960s, 1 male 1970s, 1 male 1980s, 1 female 1990s
– Grundy County: 1 female 1960s
– Iroquois County: 1 male 1970s
– Kane County: 1 female 80’s, 1 male 90’s
– Kankakee County: 1 female 1950s
– Knox County: 1 female 70’s
– Lake County: 1 female 60’s, 1 female 90’s
– LaSalle County: 2 men’s 80s
– Lee County: 1 man out of 50
Madison County: 1 man in his 70s
– Marion County: 1 80’s female
– McHenry County: 1 female 70s, 1 male 70s
– Ogle County: 1 1970s woman, 1 1980s man
– St. Clair County: 1 woman from the 70’s, 1 woman from the 90’s
– Stark County: 1 woman in her 80’s
– Stephenson County: 1 man from the 1970s
– Tazewell County: 1 male in 80’s, 1 female in 90’s
Vermilion County: 1 female 80’s, 1 male 80’s
– Winnebago County: 1 female 80’s, 3 female 90’s
– Woodford County: 1 male in 50, 1 female in 90
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