The Illinois Department of Public Health is reporting 40 additional COVID-19 related deaths on Sunday, including a female in her 80s in Marion County and a female in her 70s in Clinton County.
The state is reporting 2,428 new cases. The statewide positivity rate has dropped another tenth of a percent to 3.9-percent.
However, the Metro East Region has fallen back to 18-percent availability for ICU beds. Three days above 20-percent availability is required to move to lower mitigation levels that would allow indoor dining and many sports. The region’s seven-day positivity rate remains at 7-percent which would allow for advancement.
The Southern Illinois Region’s seven-day positivity rate has dropped another three-tenths of a percent to 4.7-percent. The East Central Illinois Region positivity remains at 5.1-percent.
Marion County has the lowest seven-day positivity rate of all the counties in South Central Illinois at 3.2-percent, down a tenth of percent since the Saturday report.
Here are the latest positivity rates for other area counties for the seven days ending January 28th:
- Clinton County — 7.5 percent
- Clay County — 11.6 percent
- Fayette County — 4.7 percent
- Jefferson County — 5.2 percent
- Washington County — 7.4 percent
- Wayne County — 4.1 percent
