Monday’s coronavirus updates: ‘The virus is winning the war right now,’ Pritzker says; woman in her 100s is 15th to lose life in Vermilion; Fauci:…

Between Nov. 5-9, the number of confirmed cases in Ford County grew by 71, to 396.

Of those, 279 are classified as confirmed by the county health department, with the 117 others listed as probable.

Seventeen county residents have died after testing positive for COVID-19.

Due to what the county health department describes as "an issue we are experiencing with state reporting systems," it's been unable to provide daily testing and case totals since late last month.

"No additional data can be provided at this time," the health department wrote in a Monday news release.

Vermilion Countys 15th coronavirus-related death involves a woman more than 100 years old.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to her friends and family, Vermilion health Administrator Doug Toole wrote Monday afternoon.

Meanwhile, the number of confirmed cases in the county grew by 12 Monday, to 1,925. That figure was on the low end, Toole said, because staff spent much of the day reviewing new cases.

The case numbers will be higher tomorrow, Toole said.

Twenty-one county residents are hospitalized with the virus. They're among 241 active cases.

How Monday's new cases break down by age:

The seven-day positivity rate in the region that covers East Central Illinois continues to trend in the wrong direction.

When figures were updated Monday afternoon by the Illinois Department of Public Health, Region 6s rate rose from 10.8 percent to 11.3 percent.

For restrictions to be lifted, the region that includes Champaign, Douglas, Ford, Piatt, Vermilion and 16 other counties must have three consecutive days of a rate under 6.5 percent.

The metrics the state uses cover a period that ends three days earlier (figures posted Monday are through Nov. 6) and exclude data from the UI campus massive saliva testing (if UI tests were included, the regions rate would be 4.2 percent, up from 3.8 overnight).

A look at how the rate has grown over time:

Below is a look at the rolling seven-day rates of the 21 counties that make up Region 6, and how those rates compare to the previous day after Nov. 5 testing was factored in:

*-If the UIs saliva testing results were included in the states count, Champaign Countys seven-day rate would be 1.7 percent, up from 1.5 overnight.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker tells reporters during a news conference Monday in Chicago that the COVID-19 situation in the northwest region of Illinois is impacted by sharing borders with Iowa and Wisconsin, states where positivity rates are higher.

Reports Peter Hancock of our Springfield-based news partner, Capitol News Illinois:

Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Monday that three more regions of the state will be placed under even stricter COVID-19 restrictions starting Wednesday as the states rates of infections and hospitalizations continue to climb.

The virus is winning the war right now, Pritzker said during his daily COVID-19 briefing in Chicago.

Ten of the states 11 regions are under Tier 1 mitigations, which include the closing of bars and restaurants to indoor service and limiting the size of public gatherings to 25 or fewer, among other measures.

Only Region 1, which includes northwest Illinois, is under Tier 2 mitigations. Restrictions under Tier 2 include limiting public gatherings to 10 or fewer people and limiting outdoor seating at bars and restaurants to six or fewer people at a single table.

Starting Wednesday, Pritzker said, Region 5, in southern Illinois, Region 7, which includes the south Chicago suburbs in Will and Kankakee counties, and Region 8, which includes the western suburbs in DuPage and Kane counties, will join Region 1 in those stricter mitigation measures.

Regions are placed in the first tier of resurgence mitigations whenever the average test positivity rate exceeds 8 percent for three consecutive days. The restrictions are lifted only after the positivity rate falls below 6.5 percent for three consecutive days.

A full list of the mitigation measures in place in each region is available on the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunitys website.

Pritzker said the latest actions are being taken because of rising test positivity rates in each of the regions. In Region 5, according to the most recent data on the Illinois Department of Public Healths website, the seven-day rolling average positivity rate stood at 11.5 percent on Saturday, Nov. 6, while Region 7 posted a 16.4 percent rate and Region 8 stood at 13.7 percent.

Each of those regions has been under Tier 1 mitigations for more than two weeks. Region 5 was placed under those restrictions Oct. 22, while Regions 7 and 8 followed on Oct. 23.

But those measures so far have failed to bring down the rate of infections in those areas, and Pritzker put the responsibility for that on local officials.

Some elected leaders are allowing this continued rise in positivity to balloon out of control while taking no action, he said. These mayors and city councils and county boards and state's attorneys need to take some responsibility for keeping their constituents safe. I promise them that responsibility pales in comparison to what could come when the hospitals in your area are filling up and there aren't enough nurses or doctors to save their constituents lives.

In addition to the three regions where Tier 2 mitigations were announced Monday, two other regions appear to be headed in the same direction, according to IDPH data. Those include Region 2, which includes Peoria, the Quad Cities and several surrounding counties, and Region 3, which includes Springfield, Quincy and other areas of west-central Illinois.

The rolling average positivity rate in both of those regions stood higher than in Region 5 13.2 percent in Region 2 and 14.4 percent in Region 3 but the Tier 1 mitigations in those regions have been in effect only since the first week of November.

A spokeswoman for Pritzker said in an email that the administration typically waits two to three weeks before moving a region into a higher tier of mitigation.

All of Illinois has been on an upward trajectory of COVID-19 infections since early August. During his briefing, Pritzker noted the average number of new cases reported daily in Illinois has jumped 380 percent since Oct. 1, while the positivity rate has climbed 180 percent and both hospitalizations and deaths per day are up 150 percent.

From Saturday through Monday, IDPH reported a total of 33,020 new confirmed and probable cases an average of just over 11,000 per day and 132 virus-related deaths. The preliminary seven-day rolling average positivity rate stood at 11.4 percent.

That pushed the statewide totals since the pandemic began to 498,560 cases, and 10,210 deaths. Given the current rate of spread, Illinois will likely surpass half a million total cases on Tuesday.

As of late Sunday night, 4,409 people in Illinois were reported hospitalized with COVID-19. Of those, 857 patients were in intensive care units and 376 of those patients were on ventilators.

For the week of Nov. 2-8, the average number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 each day stood at 4,043, the highest it has been since the peak of the first wave of the pandemic in mid-May. The average number of people in ICU beds stood at 799 per day, the highest number since early June, while average ventilator use stood at 349 per day, the highest rate since mid-June.

The number of confirmed cases in Champaign County grew by 40 Monday, to 7,129.

Other county numbers of note:

Six residents remain hospitalized with COVID-19.

Recovered cases were up by 103, to 6,677.

Active cases were down by 63, to 420.

Close contacts in quarantine were down by 69, to 1,382.

Heres 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 countys pandemic totals, according to CUPHD:

The Leonhard Recreation Center will remain closed until Nov. 16 due to staff COVID-19 cases, the Champaign Park District announced over the weekend.

Although this was a difficult decision, the Champaign Park District and Leonhard Recreation Center staff take our members health and wellbeing seriously, Revenue Facilities Director Jimmy Gleason said in a statement.

We want nothing more than to provide a safe place for your health and wellness needs, and take cleaning and safety very seriously.

For the fourth straight day, new cases in Illinois topped 10,000.

Of 64,760 new tests reported Monday, 10,573 came back positive, a daily rate of 16.3 percent.

The statewide seven-day positivity rate rose from 10.6 to 11.4 percent

Heres a look at November's totals, with state pandemic highs marked with asterisks:

The Illinois Department of Public Health on Monday also reported 14 deaths statewide:

Twenty-nine new cases emerged from 5,339 new tests Sunday on the UI campus, a rate of 0.5 percent, according to data updated Monday.

The seven-day positivity rate on campus now stands at 0.6 percent.

Since Aug. 24, when classes began, there have been 3,143 unique cases of COVID-19 on the UI campus.

Since Aug. 16, when move-in week kicked off, there have been 3,425 cases.

Heres a daily breakdown of tests and unique cases since students began reporting to campus in mid-August, according to the UIs COVID-19 dashboard:

The number of confirmed cases in Douglas County grew by 20 late Sunday, to 1,027.

Of those, 334 have come in the past 14 days. They're among 592 active cases or close contacts the Douglas County Health Department says it's monitoring.

How the new cases break down by age:

The 75 counties shaded in orange including Douglas and Vermilion are on the Illinois Department of Public Health's latest coronavirus warning level list, updated each Friday.

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