Nearly 2,000 cases of COVID-19 were reported Thursday in Illinois, the highest one day total since early May.
The number of new cases has been rising in recent weeks.
Governor JB Pritzker says they are closely monitoring the situation and will impose mitigations if needed. In the meantime, he says more people need to get vaccinated.
“These vaccines work to prevent serious illness. And we’ve seen that 99% of people that are dying in hospitals today in the state of Illinois are unvaccinated people. So please people get vaccinated.”
As far as variants go, there have been over five times as many cases of the new Gamma Strain than the Delta Variant in Illinois.
