Illinois now has seen 213,721 total cases of the virus and 7,833 people have died. A total of 3,541,183 tests have been conducted since the start of the pandemic.

As of late Wednesday night, Illinois had 1,519 COVID-19 patients in the hospital. Of those, 357 were in the ICU and 124 were on ventilators.

Regional update: According to a July 15 update to the governor’s COVID-19 response plan, the state will be tracking public health metrics in a slightly different way to monitor any potential resurgences of COVID-19. Additional restrictions can be placed on any of the state’s 11 health regions if the region sustains an increase in its average positivity rate for seven days out of a ten day period.

A region may also become more restrictive if there is a seven-day increase in hospital admissions for COVID-19-related illness or a reduction in hospital medical/surgical beds or ICU capacity below 20%. If a region reports three consecutive days with greater than an 8% average positivity rate, additional infection mitigation will be considered through a tiered system of restriction guidelines offered by the IDPH.

The North Suburban region (McHenry and Lake counties) has seen four days of positivity increases and only one day of hospital admission increases. The region’s positivity rate increased slightly to 5.7%. Currently, 39% of medical/surgical beds are available and 54% of ICU beds.

The West Suburban region (DuPage and Kane counties) has seen four days of positivity increases and one day of hospital admission increases. The region’s positivity rate increased for the second consecutive day to 5.2%. Currently, 31% of medical/surgical beds are available and 43% of ICU beds.

The South Suburban region (Will and Kankakee counties) has seen five days of positivity increases and four days of hospital admission increases. The region’s positivity rate increased again, this time to 7.5%, putting it within 0.5 percentage points of the 8% fail-safe for restrictions. Currently, 31% of medical/surgical beds are available and 32% of ICU beds.

The North region (Boone, Carroll, DeKalb, Jo Daviess, Lee, Ogle, Stephenson, Whiteside and Winnebago counties) has seen three days of positivity increase and one day of hospital admission increases. The region’s positivity rate increased for the second straight day to 4.1%. Currently, 42% of medical/surgical beds are available and 54% of ICU beds.

The North-Central region (Bureau, Fulton, Grundy, Henderson, Henry, Kendall, Knox, La Salle, Livingston, Marshall, McDonough, McLean, Mercer, Peoria, Putnam, Rock Island, Stark, Tazewell, Warren and Woodford counties) has seen six days of positivity increases and two days of hospital admission increases. The region’s positivity rate increased to 5.7%. Currently, 39% of medical/surgical beds are available and 43% of ICU beds.

Chicago has seen three days of positivity increases and three days of hospital admission increases. The region’s positivity rate remained flat at 5.1%. Currently, 28% of medical/surgical beds are available and 43% of ICU beds.

Suburban Cook County has seen four days of positivity increases and four days of hospital admission increases. The region’s positivity rate remained flat at 6.4%. Currently, 29% of medical/surgical beds are available and 35% of ICU beds.

The Metro East region, which includes East St. Louis and is the only region under enhanced restrictions, saw its positivity decrease to 9.4%. It has less than two weeks to get down to 6.5% positive, or it will face further restrictions.

To see how other regions across the state are doing, see the full IDPH dashboard here.

Newly reported deaths include:

– Champaign County: 1 male 50s

– Cook County: 1 male 50s, 1 female 70s, 2 males 90s

– DeWitt County: 1 male 80s

– DuPage County: 1 male 70s

– Jefferson County: 1 female 70s, 1 female 80s, 2 females 90s, 1 male 90s

– Kane County: 1 male 80s

– Lake County: 1 male 60s

– La Salle County: 1 female 90s

– Madison County: 1 male 90s

– Montgomery County: 1 female 90s

– Morgan County: 1 female 70s, 1 female 90s

– Peoria County: 1 female 80s

– Perry County: 1 female 80s

– Richland County: 1 male 80s

– Rock Island County: 1 male 90s

– St. Clair County: 1 male 60s

– Whiteside County: 1 male 90s

– Williamson County: 1 female 50s

– Winnebago County: 1 male 70s