Friday’s coronavirus updates: New cases continue decline on campus as seven-day positivity rate falls to 0.7%; Blue Ridge district going all-remote after four positive tests – Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette

The seven-day positivity price on campus continues to constructing downward, going from 0.9 to 0.7 percent Friday after numbers from Wednesday and Thursday private been tallied Friday.

Of 11,993 glossy tests on Wednesday, 47 came befriend definite, a price of 0.4 percent.

Of 6,626 glossy tests on Thursday, 34 came befriend definite, a price of 0.5 percent.

These are the lowest positivity rates on befriend-to-befriend days on campus since Aug. 27-28, when the UI had consecutive days of 0.4 percent.

Since Aug. 24, when courses started, there private been 1,547 unfamiliar cases of COVID-19 on campus.

Since Aug. 16, when stride-in week kicked off, there private been 1,829 cases.

Right here’s a each day breakdown of tests and unfamiliar cases since students started reporting to campus in mid-August, per the UI’s COVID-19 dashboard:

• Thursday, Sept. 10: 6,626 glossy tests, 34 glossy cases
• Wednesday, Sept. 9: 11,993 glossy tests, 47 glossy cases
• Tuesday, Sept. 8: 11,621 glossy tests, 81 glossy cases
• Monday, Sept. 7: 6,299 glossy tests, 69 glossy cases
• Sunday, Sept. 6: 2,987 glossy tests, 37 glossy cases
• Saturday, Sept. 5: 2,609 glossy tests, 37 glossy cases
• Friday, Sept. 4: 14,204 glossy tests, 104 glossy cases
• Thursday, Sept. 3: 14,841 glossy tests, 88 glossy cases
• Wednesday, Sept. 2: 7,089 glossy tests, 120 glossy cases
• Tuesday, Sept. 1: 14,367 glossy tests, 199 glossy cases
• Monday, Aug. 31: 17,227 glossy tests, 230 glossy cases
• Sunday, Aug. 30: 3,640 glossy tests, 104 glossy cases
• Saturday, Aug. 29: 2,895 glossy tests, 50 glossy cases
• Friday, Aug. 28: 15,030 glossy tests, 65 glossy cases
• Thursday, Aug. 27: 15,123 glossy tests, 60 glossy cases
• Wednesday, Aug. 26: 6,812 glossy tests, 54 glossy cases
• Tuesday, Aug. 25: 15,850 glossy tests, 89 glossy cases
• Monday, Aug. 24: 17,656 glossy tests, 79 glossy cases
• Sunday, Aug. 23: 4,474 glossy tests, 53 glossy cases
• Saturday, Aug. 22: 3,326 glossy tests, 43 glossy cases
• Friday, Aug. 21: 10,877 glossy tests, 54 glossy cases
• Thursday, Aug. 20: 10,742 glossy tests, 52 glossy cases
• Wednesday, Aug. 19: 6,300 glossy tests, 29 glossy cases
• Tuesday, Aug. 18: 6,162 glossy tests, 20 glossy cases
• Monday, Aug. 17: 9,064 glossy tests, 24 glossy cases
• Sunday, Aug. 16: 2,453 glossy tests, 7 glossy cases

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After recording four definite tests for COVID-19 this week, the Blue Ridge college district will shift to all-distant learning through as a minimal Sept. 25, Piatt County Journal-Republican Editor Steve Hoffman reports.

Blue Ridge becomes the first complete district within the rental to shift to all-distant learning; over the previous three weeks, the same action changed into once taken at two high faculties, Cerro Gordo and Salt Fork.

The definite tests challenging two workers members, a pupil at Schneider Well-known and a pupil at Blue Ridge Excessive Faculty.

“We’re coordinating our efforts with the DeWitt/Piatt Bi-County Health Division to promptly name and video show folks who private had glossy contact with the COVID-19 folks to forestall additional spread within our college and community,” Superintendent Hillary Stanifer talked about. “We’re following guidance from the Centers for Disease Defend a watch on and Prevention as effectively as utter and native health departments for finest practices and procedures to defend all americans’s health.”

Monday will be a distant planning day for staff with out a work assigned to students who had been attending two days per week in person. Faraway instruction for all students will commence the subsequent day.

Personnel members and students who private been in shut contact with the COVID-19 cases will be in quarantine for 14 days. A deep handsome of district structures is also deliberate.

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The series of glossy cases in Ford County grew by five Friday, to 125.

Of these, 19 are classified as active and one resident has been hospitalized, per the county health department.

The 20-to-29 age community has had presumably the most cases (22), followed by 30-to-39 (19).

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Vermilion changed into once among 30 counties statewide added to the COVID-19 warning stage list Friday, the Illinois Division of Public Health presented.

County metrics are assessed each Friday; any county with two or more likelihood indicators, as defined by the utter, is added.

Of anguish in Vermilion, per IDPH:

— Unique cases per 100,000: Vermilion is at 96, considerably increased than the target price of 50 or much less.

— Emergency department visits for COVID-19-love diseases: Vermilion’s quantity rose by 1.5 percent within the final week; the target is “lowering or stable” over seven days.

“That is a warning, and an opportunity for us to remind and befriend companies and residents to be thoughtful,” Vermilion County Public Health Administrator Doug Toole talked about. “If we continue to exist the warning list, and totally different counties in our net page assemble, as effectively, the utter could perhaps in immediate tighten up just among the guidelines to assist in social distancing and encourage us to return to a decrease likelihood discipline.”

The 30 counties at a warning stage:

• Bond
• Bureau
• Cass
• Clinton
• Coles
• Crawford
• DeKalb
• DuPage
• Effingham
• Greene
• Grundy
• Hancock
• Henderson
• Jackson
• Jasper
• Jersey
• Lawrence
• Madison
• McLean
• Monroe
• Morgan
• Pulaski
• Schuyler
• Shelby
• Stark
• St. Clair
• Tazewell
• Vermilion
• Washington 
• Williamson

Even though the explanations for counties reaching a warning stage fluctuate, just among the common components encompass: a upward push in cases and outbreaks are connected to varsity parties, weddings, broad gatherings, bars and clubs, long-timeframe care services and totally different congregate settings, commute to neighboring states, and spread among members of the identical household who are not separating at house.

Later Friday, Toole presented the county had 13 glossy cases, in conjunction with a baby, pushing its total to 418. Also contracting the virus: four residents in their 20s, four in their 50s and two in their 70s, as effectively as one person each in their 30s and 60s.

Three of the glossy cases are within the identical household, two others are in any other household, and one not too long within the past traveled to a theme park, Toole talked about.

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Of 738 Champaign County residents with active cases of COVID-19, finest one is hospitalized.

(As Deb Pressey reported Thursday, that doesn’t point out local hospitals private factual one COVID patient — Carle, which draws from a 41-county net page, had 20 patients at its health center in Urbana this week).

Of 22,293 glossy tests over the previous two days in Champaign County, 356 came befriend definite, a price of 1.6 percent, C-U Public Health reported Friday.

The county’s seven-day positivity price is 1.0 percent, up a miniature bit from Wednesday’s 0.7 percent however effectively underneath the utter’s price of 3.9 percent.

Totally different numbers of show cowl from Friday’s case recordsdata, which spans two days because of CUPHD changed into once prioritizing case investigations Thursday and didn’t update totals:

• Of the 356 glossy cases, 304 challenging residents of Campustown’s two ZIP codes — 61820 (up 255) and 61801 (up 49).
• Of 738 active cases, 601 are from these two ZIP codes.
• Active cases rose by 108 since Wednesday.
• Recovered cases private been up 248 (to 2,662).
• A 28th county ZIP code changed into once added to the confirmed case list Friday — Allerton’s 61810, which straddles each Champaign and Vermilion counties.
• Over the route of the pandemic, 347,668 tests private now produced 3,420 cases. The series of coronavirus-connected deaths remains 20.

Right here’s an up to this level rundown of county ZIP codes with active cases followed by their total series of cases, per C-U Public Health District recordsdata. (Expose that the adjustments duvet two days’ worth of recordsdata, as no cases private been up to this level on Thursday).

• 61820/Champaign:  521 active (up 58 from Wednesday), 1,482 total (up 255)
• 61801/Urbana: 80 active (up 20 from Wednesday), 310 total (up 49)
• 61822/Champaign:  26 active (up eight from Wednesday), 236 total (up 13)
• 61821/Champaign: 22 active (up four from Wednesday), 368 total (up 10)
• 61802/Urbana: 19 active (up five from Wednesday), 285 total (up seven)
• 61873/St. Joseph:  15 active (down two from Wednesday), 57 total (up three)
• 61853/Mahomet:  12 active (up three from Wednesday), 118 total (up four)
• 61874/Savoy: 12 active (up four from Wednesday), 88 total (up four)
• 61866/Rantoul: 8 active (up one from Wednesday), 285 total (up one)
• 61880/Tolono: 7 active (up one from Wednesday), 46 total (up one)
• 61863/Pesotum: 3 active (up one from Wednesday), 12 total (up two)
• 61878/Thomasboro:  3 active (up one from Wednesday), 9 total (up one)
• 61877/Sidney:  2 active (up one from Wednesday), 17 total (up one)
• 61859/Ogden: 2 active (up one from Wednesday), 6 total (up one)
• 61843/Fisher: 1 active (down one from Wednesday), 33 total (up one)
• 61864/Philo: 1 active (up one from Wednesday), 12 total (up one)
• 61847/Gifford: 1 active (unchanged from Wednesday), 8 total (unchanged)
• 61872/Sadorus: 1 active (unchanged from Wednesday), 4 total (unchanged)
• 61810/Allerton: 1 active (up one from Wednesday), 1 total (up one)
• 61845/Foosland: 0 active (unchanged from Wednesday), 10 total (unchanged)
• 61875/Seymour: 0 active (unchanged from Wednesday), 6 total (unchanged)
• 61849/Homer: 0 active (unchanged from Wednesday), 6 total (unchanged)
• 60949/Ludlow: 0 active (unchanged from Wednesday), 6 total (unchanged)
• 61840/Dewey:  0 active (unchanged from Wednesday), 5 total (unchanged)
• 61871/Royal: 0 active (unchanged from Wednesday), 5 total (unchanged)
• 61816/Broadlands: 0 active (unchanged from Wednesday), 1 total (unchanged)
• 61851/Ivesdale: 0 active (unchanged from Wednesday), 1 total (unchanged)
• 61862/Penfield: 0 active (unchanged from Wednesday), 1 total (unchanged)

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Right here’s an up to this level breakdown of confirmed county cases by age community, per CUPHD recordsdata:

• 11 to 20: 1,331 cases (up 231 from Wednesday); 30.1 percent of all tests in Champaign County
• 21 to 30: 870 cases (up 98 from Wednesday); 31.2 percent of tests
• 31 to 40: 381 cases (up nine from Wednesday); 11.1 percent of tests
• 41 to 50: 271 cases (up eight from Wednesday); 8.9 percent of tests
• 51 to 60: 220 cases (up six from Wednesday); 8.2 percent of tests
• 10 and underneath: 136 cases (up two from Wednesday); 1.8 percent of tests
• 61 to 70: 114 cases (up two from Wednesday); 5.1 percent of tests
• 71 to 80: 54 cases (up one from Wednesday); 2.1 percent of tests
• 81 to 90: 32 cases (unchanged from Wednesday); 1.0 percent of tests
• 91 to 100: 11 cases (unchanged from Wednesday); 0.4 percent of tests

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Of 56,661 glossy tests statewide, 2,145 came befriend definite Friday, a price of 3.8 percent.

The utter’s seven-day positivity price changed into once up a miniature bit, from 3.8 to just a few.9 percent.

The Illinois Division of Public Health also reported 32 lives lost to COVID-19 on Friday:

• Coles County: 1 male 80s
• Cook County: 1 feminine 50s, 1 male 60s, 2 females 70s, 4 females 80s, 1 feminine 90s
• DuPage County: 1 feminine 60s, 1 feminine 70s, 1 male 70s, 1 male 80s
• Greene County: 1 male 60s
• Jersey County: 1 feminine 80s
• Kane County: 1 feminine 60s, 1 feminine 90s
• 
Lake County: 1 male 70s
• Macon County: 1 feminine 90s
• Madison County: 1 feminine 70s, 1 feminine 90s
• Peoria County: 1 feminine 90s
• Rock Island County: 1 feminine 80s
• St. Clair County: 1 male 70s, 1 male 90s
• Tazewell County: 1 feminine 70s
• Wayne County: 1 feminine 70s
• Will County: 1 feminine 70s, 1 feminine 90s
• Williamson County: 1 feminine 70s, 1 male 80s

Pandemic totals, per IDPH: 4,632,382 tests, 257,788 cases, 8,273 deaths.