Illinois now has seen 223,470 total cases of the virus, and 7,917 people have died. A total of 3,781,050 tests have been conducted since the start of the pandemic.

As of late Monday, Illinois had 1,549 COVID-19 patients in the hospital. Of those, 345 were in intensive care units, and 135 were on ventilators.

Regional update: According to a July 15 update to Gov. JB Pritzker’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 three days of positivity increases and two days of hospital admission increases, an increase in both metrics. The region’s positivity rate went up to 5.8%. Currently, 40% of medical/surgical beds are available and 53% of ICU beds.

The West Suburban region (DuPage and Kane counties) has seen five days of positivity increases and one day of hospital admission increases. The region’s positivity rate went down to 5.7%. Currently, 36% of medical/surgical beds are available and 51% of ICU beds.

The South Suburban region (Will and Kankakee counties) has seen seven days of positivity increases and one day of hospital admission increases. The region’s positivity rate went up to 8.4%, the fourth straight day above the state’s fail-safe threshold of 8.0%. Additional mitigations have been placed on this region. Currently, 32% of medical/surgical beds are available and 31% of ICU beds.

The North region (Boone, Carroll, DeKalb, Jo Daviess, Lee, Ogle, Stephenson, Whiteside and Winnebago counties) has seen seven days of positivity increase and two days of hospital admission increases, an increase in both metrics. The region’s positivity rate went up to 5.0%. Currently, 48% of medical/surgical beds are available and 52% 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 went up to 6.4%. Currently, 35% of medical/surgical beds are available and 45% of ICU beds.

Chicago has seen four days of positivity increases and four days of hospital admission increases. The region’s positivity rate increased to 5.4%. Currently, 27% of medical/surgical beds are available and 43% of ICU beds.

Suburban Cook County has seen five days of positivity increases and four days of hospital admission increases. The region’s positivity rate increased to 6.8%. Currently, 34% of medical/surgical beds are available and 38% of ICU beds.

The Metro East region, which includes East St. Louis and was the first region under enhanced restrictions, saw its positivity rate increase to 9.8%. It has about one week to get down to 6.5% positive, or it will face further restrictions.

Region 6, which includes Champaign County and the home of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus, has seen a significant increase in testing with its saliva test. This region has the lowest positivity rate at 1.6%.

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

Newly reported deaths include:

– Cook County: 1 male 50s, 3 males 70s, 2 females 80s, 1 male 80s

– DuPage County: 1 female 80s

– Jersey County: 1 female 90s

– Lake County: 2 males 60s, 1 male 80s, 1 female 90s

– La Salle County: 1 female 70s, 1 female 80s, 1 female 100+

– Madison County: 1 female 80s

– Massac County: 1 male 70s

– Peoria County: 1 male 80s

– Rock Island County: 1 male 40s

– Saline County: 1 female 70s

– Shelby County: 1 female 70s

– Vermilion County: 1 male 80s

– Williamson County: 1 female 90s

– Winnebago County: 1 female 20s, 1 male 50s, 2 males 60s, 1 male 70s