MORE COVID-19 IN LAWRENCE COUNTY

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The Illinois Department of Public Health reports there were 1,362 new cases of coronavirus across the state Tuesday with 23 additional confirmed deaths. The Lawrence County Health Department reports there were 8 county residents who did test positive for the disease from last Friday the 25th through Tuesday the 29th. Those new cases are not related and all are now under home quarantine with contact tracing being done. With those new cases, the LCHD indicates there have been 261 positives. 41 of those are still active and 2 people are in the hospital. 210 people have recovered and there have been 2 deaths in Lawrence County. 2 more area deaths were reported in Jasper and Clark Counties in southeastern Illinois Tuesday. Overall since the pandemic began, there have been 291,001 cases and 8,637 deaths statewide.