Illinois public health officials announced Thursday that there are 2,056 new diagnoses of covid-19 and 25 more deaths. The number of known cases across the state during the epidemic increased to 268,207. The death toll in the state is now 8,392. The statewide seven-day rolling positivity rate is 6.6%.
The area includes Will and Kankaki counties, which imposed stricter rules after the state exceeded the positive rate of 8 percent for three days, up from 6.4 percent by Wednesday, which would restore statewide rules. The fourth phase of the government J.B. Pritzker’s reopening plan.
Meanwhile, Big Ten announced on Wednesday that football would resume this fall, with unanimous votes and regular cuts. The 23-24 weekend will announce plans to play eight regular-season games in eight weeks.
However, Pritzker knocked on the door on the possibility of high school athletes from Illinois joining their college leagues, saying that football and other contact sports are still very dangerous amid the epidemic.
In addition, some suburban schools have decided to reopen closed buildings for remote learning supervision of a limited number of early-age children, but for a fee.
Here’s what’s happening Thursday with the COVID-19 in the Chicago area and Illinois:
12:10 pm: 2,056 newly known COVID-19 cases and 25 more deaths have been reported
Illinois health officials on Thursday announced 2,056 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 25 additional deaths. The Illinois Department of Public Health is now reporting a total of 268,207 cases, including 8,392 deaths in 102 counties in Illinois since the start of the coronavirus outbreak.
The seven-day statewide positivity rate is.6%. In the last 24 hours, laboratories have recorded 57,800 new tests, according to IDPH.
In Illinois, 1,558 people are hospitalized with COVID-19. Of those, 359 patients were in the ICU and 144 patients were on ventilators, state health officials said.
10:49 am: Lincoln Park zoolites will continue, but with a new 5 charge
The park zoo holiday zoolites festival will run this year, but the organization announced Thursday with a cover charge of the first decade to compensate for the zoo’s epidemic year-round damage.
The annual Badak King King ticket to the holiday-lit zoo ground will be $ 5 per person regardless of age or membership status, and they will be available to zoo members Sept. 24 and will sell to the general public on October 1st.
10:27:42 Wisconsin football players and staff members – Sept. 1. 29th – Big Ten prepares for its season, as a positive test for COVID-19
Twenty-two players and staff with the Wisconsin football team have tested positive for COVID-19 as they plan to start the Big Ten season.
Public Health Madison and Dan County say 42 people tested positive since June when athletes and staff returned to campus. Of the positive tests, 29 were from 1 September to 15 September.
Health officials in Madison and Dane County are urging fans not to gather to watch football games when the Badgers begin their season in October.
8:45 am: Attorney General says coronavirus lockdown is second only to slavery after government intrusion on freedom
Attorney General William Barre on Thursday strongly condemned the comparison of the lockdown order during the coronavirus epidemic.
In a comment Wednesday night at Conservative Hillsdale College in Michigan, Barrow called the lockdown orders from slavery “the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history.”
“You know, doing a national lockdown, stopping on a domestic order is like a house arrest. Aside from slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the biggest intrusion on civil liberties in American history, “Bair said as he greeted the crowd.
No. 3 House Democratic Leader, James Cliiburn, DSCA CNN. Said Barr’s remarks were “the most ridiculous, tone-deaf, God-fearing things I’ve ever heard” because they wrongly equated human bondage. The goal is to save lives.
“Slavery was not about saving lives. It was about devaluing life, “Kliburn said. “This epidemic is dangerous to human life.”
This is not the first time that Barry has condemned the stay-at-home order.
8:18 a.m .: U.S. Despite declining unemployment claims in the U.S., the COVID-19 risk is higher in the U.S. Continues to find employment in
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to 860,000 last week, a historically high figure reflecting the economic damage caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
Even before the Great Depression of 2007-2009, before the epidemic hit the economy, the number of people signing up for employment assistance never exceeded 700,000.
The Labor Department said Thursday that U.S. Unemployment claims have dropped by 1,000,000 in the previous week, collecting 17.6 million traditional unemployment benefits compared to 1.7 million a year ago.
In Illinois, first-time claims for unemployment benefits totaled 23,339 last week, up from 25,478 a week earlier.
As Black at 7:10 a.m., Latino neighbors severely affected by COVID-19, Chicago launches plans to address racial disparities in lifetime
The Chicago Department of Health and community groups ensured the launch of a plan to address racial disparities in health and the “lifetime gap between black and white” in the city.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot, city health commissioner Dr. at the online launch of the program on the city health department’s Facebook page and the city’s website. Allison Arwadi and others will participate.
6.0 a.m .: Deerfield High School workers test the district’s extended remote learning after COVID-1 positive days.
A staff member at Deerfield High School has tested positive for COVID-19, according to an instruction emailed to parents, students and staff by Principal Kathrin Anderson on Tuesday night.
“The staff member is now alone. We are working closely with the Lake County Health Department on contact tracing. The health department will contact the staff member directly and any close contacts will be identified, contacted and guided, ”Anderson said in the notice.
Karen Werner, a spokeswoman for Township High School District 113, said the staff member was at the school recently. Anderson said in the notification and Warner also said Wednesday that federal privacy laws prevent the district from releasing the person’s identity or any additional information about the person.
5 a.m .: Distance learning, at school? Some suburban public schools closed by COVID-19 have reopened for e-learning supervision – at the expense of tax-paying parents.
After a flurry of emails and calls from frustrated parents seeking to get their children back to class this fall, Arlington Heights School District 25 officers found a way to help.
Working with the Park District, they decided to reopen closed schools for a limited number of middle-aged remote learning supervision of early-age children.
But as Arlington Heights resident Chuck Miller sees it, a flaw in the program comes down to his calculation problem, which a second-grader can solve: $ 50 per student per day, costing Millers $ 1,000 a week to enroll his four children. Have to do – an amount he said is unrealistic for many families, including him.
The irony is not lost on the fact that the program is taking place in schools that were considered unsafe to open class in person.
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