Medical personnel at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, conduct drive-thru COVID-19 testing in Park Ridge, Ill., Thursday, March 19, 2020. Chicago officials have ordered all people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 or showing symptoms of the disease caused by it to stay indoors. The order issued Thursday formalized previous advice seeking to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
Health officials in Illinois reported 593 new cases of coronavirus statewide Thursday, along with 55 additional deaths.
The new cases bring the statewide total since the pandemic began to 134,778 cases and 6,537 deaths.
The state also reported 25,504 total test specimens returned to state labs in the last 24 hours. That comes one day after Illinois saw the highest single-day testing total since the pandemic began with more than 29,000. The latest increase lifts the state to 1,283,832 tests conducted.
The rolling seven-day positivity rate is still dropping, standing at three percent according to new figures from the department of public health.
