Illinois’ daily death toll lower than six previous day’s as some call for plan to reopen economy
by Greg Bishop, The Center Square
| April 13, 2020 08:00 AM
Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Sunday’s COVID-19-related death toll of 43 is lower than the daily death tolls from the past six days in Illinois, but he couldn’t say what plans there are to open things back up.
Illinois has been under stay-at-home orders since March 21, more than three weeks. The governor said it’s an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19. Nonessential businesses have been prohibited from being open to the public, including churches across the state that were urged to not allow congregations on Easter Sunday.
During his daily press briefing Sunday, Pritzker announced there were 1,672 new positive COVID cases in Illinois. That brings the total number of cases in Illinois to 20,853. There’s also been increased daily tests with nearly 8,000 performed in the last 24 hours. The total number of tests conducted surpassed 100,735.
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