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Tuesday's coronavirus updates: 74 new cases on campus, 52 in Vermilion, 31 in Douglas; Chicago restaurants forced to halt indoor dining starting Friday; Champaign Co. hospitalizations down to 4 - Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette

Tuesday's coronavirus updates: 74 new cases on campus, 52 in Vermilion, 31 in Douglas; Chicago restaurants forced to halt indoor dining starting Friday; Champaign Co. hospitalizations down to 4 - Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette

Tuesday's coronavirus updates: 74 new cases on campus, 52 in Vermilion, 31 in Douglas; Chicago restaurants forced to halt indoor dining starting Friday; Champaign Co. hospitalizations down to 4 - Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
Oct 27, 2020 2 mins, 57 secs

More than 40 percent of those (317) have come in the past two weeks, requiring county health officials to monitor 633 Douglas residents who either have active cases or are close contacts of someone who does.

With 11,112 new tests, the UI’s seven-day positivity rate remained low — 0.3 percent, up from 0.2 a day earlier.

Of 5,186 new tests, just six came back positive Tuesday in Champaign County, a rate of 0.1 percent.

The county’s seven-day positivity rate remained 0.5 percent for the sixth straight day.

The seven-day rate without University of Illinois testing factored in — the figure the state will use for Champaign County in its mitigation plan — is 4.5 percent through Oct.

The seven-day rate for the East Central Illinois region Champaign County is a part of on the state’s mitigation map (Region 6) is now 7.9 percent.

Here’s an updated rundown of county ZIP codes with active cases followed by their total number of cases, according to C-U Public Health District data:.

The county’s pandemic totals, according to CUPHD: 760,502 tests, 5,987 confirmed cases, 28 fatalities, 9,371 close contacts quarantined and 983 close contacts that became positive.

Of 62,074 new tests statewide, IDPH reported that exactly 4,000 came back positive Tuesday, a rate of 6.4 percent.

The state’s seven-day positivity rate increased, as it has for much of the month, from 6.3 to 6.4 percent.

The number of confirmed cases in Vermilion County grew by 52 Tuesday, to 1,559, 181 of which are classified as active.

Hospitalizations rose by two, to 16, while the seven-day positivity rate was up slightly, rising from 7.7 to 7.8 percent.

Two other regions are above the 8 percent positivity rate threshold that, if sustained for three days, would subject them to the same mitigations, and the other two non-mitigated regions are quickly nearing the threshold as well.

The statewide COVID-19 rolling positivity rate increased to 6.4 percent Tuesday, the highest it has been since June 2!

The statewide rate is generally lower than regional rates because it is calculated on a case positivity rate basis — meaning any positive case is counted only after the first time the individual tests positive, not after subsequent positive tests.

IDPH calculates the county and regional rates with a test positivity rate — meaning every time an individual tests positive their case shows up as a positive result in regard to countywide positivity rates!

“Case positivity and test positivity rates have different purposes and are both relevant to help us understand the whole COVID picture,” a spokesperson for IDPH said in an email.

Whereas, test positivity rate account for repeated testing and helps us understand how the virus is spreading in the population over time.”.

“So all of these metrics are moving in the same direction,” she added, “which really validates that this test positivity really does give you that inkling and the fact that the test positivity goes up, it's followed by cases going up, followed by hospitalizations going up, followed by death and that's the trend, the trajectory, that we need to turn around.”.

Chicago, which makes up Region 11, had a test positivity rate of 7.8 percent, according to the latest data, but it also saw increases in positivity rates and hospitalizations for at least seven of 10 days, which triggered the added mitigations

Region 3, which includes Springfield and several surrounding counties, increased to an 8 percent positivity rate, according to the latest data, and Region 9, including north suburban Lake and McHenry counties, increased to 8.4 percent – the second day above the threshold that would lead to increased mitigations for that region

Region 2, including Peoria and several surrounding counties, had a positivity rate of 7.5 percent and Region 6 in east central Illinois had a rate of 7.9 percent

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