Coronavirus Tests

United Airlines hopes a new program to offer coronavirus tests to passengers will open up air travel to those concerned about quarantine requirements at various destinations around the world. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

The state of Illinois surpassed a major milestone on Sunday – more than 4 million coronavirus tests performed since the pandemic began.

The state of Illinois has increased the number of public testing sites to 177 across the state, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Thursday, up from 112 sites last week and available in every region of the state. Here is the number of sites located in each area, broken down by Illinois Department of Public Health region: 19 sites in the Rockford…

Nationwide, most people getting tested for coronavirus are people whose symptoms are severe or who are at risk for complications. There are many others here who can’t get tested — even though they may be walking around with the virus and not know it — because the test kits are still in such short supply. And that may be hiding...

NBC 5 Investigates examined data showing the entire country’s coronavirus tests and found that Illinois and Indiana rank on the lower end of testing rates of their population. NBC 5’s Katie Kim reports.