Officials on Monday said another 46 people have died of coronavirus in Illinois — marking two days in which the state has seen less than 100 deaths per day.
But it remains unclear whether that lower death rate will stick. Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration has said the state will remain in a death peak through early May, with 50 to 150 deaths projected every day.
And with an uptick in test results, the state has seen more than 2,000 daily coronavirus cases a day.
In total, the state received 13,834 tests results on Sunday. Monday’s new case count is 2,341 cases, bringing the state’s total to 63,840 positive cases. With the 46 deaths reported on Monday, the state has lost 2,662 people to COVID-19.
The virus is in 97 of the state’s 102 counties.
Hospitalization numbers have remained relatively flat, according to health officials. Pritzker has said he wants to see 14 days of declining hospitalizations and new cases before more parts of the state could reopen — and the state’s economy could ramp back up.
According to figures released by the Illinois Department of Public Health on Friday, there have been 7,527 cases and 1,081 deaths in the state’s nursing homes. Those tallies mean elderly care facilities have accounted for 44% of the state’s coronavirus deaths and nearly one in seven confirmed cases.
And as the Democratic governor began to see legal challenges about his extended stay-at-home order, a U.S. District Court judge on Sunday denied The Beloved Church of Lena’s motion for a temporary restraining order that would’v e allowed them to host services with 80 people. The judge’s ruling upheld Pritzker’s stay-at-home order for Illinois as constitutional.
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