Illinois COVID Cases Increase To 268,246 Deaths To 8,599

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Confirmed Cases

266,151

Confirmed Deaths

8,367

Total Tests Performed*

4,863,138

Recovery Rate**

96%

_{*Total nucleic acid-based tests performed and reported electronically for testing of COVID-19 at IDPH, commercial or hospital laboratories. All numbers displayed are provisional and will change.
** Recovered cases are defined as persons with initial positive specimen collection date > 42 days who have not expired.}

_{http://www.dph.illinois.gov/covid19
Recovery rate is calculated as the recovered cases divided by the sum of recovered cases and deceased cases.
Information regarding the number of persons under investigation updated on 9/16/2020.
Information to be updated daily.}

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Probable Cases and Deaths

Probable Cases

2,095

Probable Deaths

232

_{Information regarding the number of probable cases and deaths updated on 9/11/2020
Information updated weekly each friday.}