Category Archives: Coronavirus
Statewide COVID-19 positivity rate on Monday drops to 5.9-percent
The positivity rate for COVID-19 continues to fall. The statewide rate for the past seven days is down to 5.9-percent on Monday. Most indicators across the three regions that include Southern Illinois...
Jan 18, 2021
New COVID-19 strain now confirmed in Illinois
The variant COVID strain found in the United Kingdom is now being confirmed in Illinois. The new strain was first found in Colorado about two weeks ago and has been popping up in several other states ...
Jan 17, 2021
Southern Illinois Region gets to lift some COVID-19 mitigations
The Southern Illinois Region that includes Marion, Jefferson, and Wayne Counties and two others in North-Central and Northern Illinois are now able to lift a few COVID-19 mitigations, but no indoor se...
Jan 15, 2021
Marion County Health Department reports 25 new COVID-19 cases; no deaths
The Marion County Health Department is reporting 25 new cases of COVID-19, but no additional deaths on Thursday. The State Department of Public Health is reporting 6,652 new cases statewide and 88 add...
Jan 14, 2021
Marion County reporting one new COVID-19 death, 36 new cases on Tuesday and Wednesday
The Marion County Health Department is reporting one new COVID-19 related death and 36 new positive cases for Tuesday and Wednesday. The person who passed away was a female in her 70s. She was not a l...
Jan 13, 2021
IDPH reporting 101 deaths on Saturday, including one in Jefferson and Marion Counties
The Illinois Department of Public Health on Saturday reported 101 additional COVID-19 related deaths including one apiece in Jefferson and Marion Counties. The death in Marion County was a female in h...
Jan 09, 2021
Marion County reports 106 new cases of COVID-19; deaths in Jefferson and Fayette Counties
The Marion County Health Department reported 106 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, but no additional deaths. However, there were 126 more deaths statewide, including a female in her 90s in Jefferson Co...
Jan 08, 2021
Five new COVID-19 related deaths in Clay, Fayette, and Jefferson Counties
There were no deaths in Marion County from COVID-19 related illness on Thursday, but there were five reported across South Central Illinois. Three of the deaths were in Jefferson County, males in thei...
Jan 07, 2021
COVID-19 cases reach 1-million statewide
COVID-19 cases in Illinois now top one million. With more than 87-hundred new cases added on Thursday, Illinois now has had 1,008,045 cases of COVID infection since the pandemic began early last year....
Jan 07, 2021
Marion County records four more COVID-19 deaths; 37 new cases
The Marion County Health Department is reporting four more COVID-19 related deaths on Tuesday. That brings the number of deaths since the pandemic began to 104. The deaths include a male in his 70s an...
Jan 05, 2021
