CORONAVIRUS UPDATE

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The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 3,505 new cases of coronavirus Thursday with 44 additional deaths. The Lawrence County Health Department indicates there were 16 positive cases in the county Thursday with 135 active cases and 2 hospitalizations. Overall since the pandemic began, there have been a total of 1,608,825 cases of the disease with 24,743 deaths in Illinois. There have now been 14,395,359 vaccines administered at sites across the state since the pandemic began with over 23, 700 shots given out Wednesday. The LCHD shows that there is now 34.59% of the total population in Lawrence County fully vaccinated.