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CHICAGO - Illinois health officials on Tuesday reported 1,076 new cases and 30 additional deaths tied to the coronavirus.
The new batch of cases continues a week-long trend of an increasing statewide case count.
There are now 173,731 cases and 7,446 deaths from COVID-19, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.
The state’s seven-day, rolling positivity rate is now 3.8%, up from about 3.1% a week ago.
As of Monday night, 1,383 people in Illinois were hospitalized with COVID-19, the health department said. Of those, 329 patients were in the ICU and 128 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.