A New Outbreak of Cases has Alarmed the Illinois State, Lately

 

More than 67% of Illinois adults have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose and nearly 51% of Illinois adults are fully vaccinated, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. IDPH reporting a total of 1,384,365 cases, including 22,880 deaths, in 102 counties in Illinois. Within the past 24 hours, laboratories have reported 65,300 specimens for a total of 24,796,789.  As of Thursday night, 901 individuals in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 247 patients were in the ICU and 140 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.

The preliminary seven-day statewide positivity for cases as a percent of total test from May 28-June 3 is 1.3%. The preliminary seven-day statewide test positivity from May 28-June 3 is 1.6%. The seven-day rolling average of vaccines administered daily is 36,025 doses. On Thursday, 53,156 doses were reported administered in Illinois. 

 

Australia's Victoria state reports five new COVID-19 cases, Delta cluster grows. Australia's second-most populous state Victoria on Saturday reported a small increase in locally acquired COVID-19 cases as authorities hunted for the source of a highly infectious variant that has been detected in a new cluster.

 

Five new local cases were reported, taking Victoria's total to 70 in the latest outbreak, including one recovered case, as the state capital Melbourne entered its second weekend of a hard lockdown, due to end on June 10. Curbs were eased for the rest of the state on Friday.

 

"The next few days will be critical, because we'll see where this one go," state testing commander Jeroen Weimar told reporters. The Delta variant, which has been classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as among the four COVID-19 variants of concern due to evidence that it spreads more easily, is one of the virus variants first detected in India.

 

Victoria's chief health officer, Brett Sutton, said the Melbourne lockdown could be lifted later next week as long as all cases have been tracked down, even if the source of the Delta variant had still not been found. "It is a challenge -- the transmissibility, the secondary attack rate being 50% greater than the Alpha variant does mean you can get a large number of people within a home testing positive and you can get those transmissions in other settings more readily. But we can still manage all of that," he said.