CORONAVIRUS UPDATE

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The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 1,549 new cases of coronavirus along with 25 new deaths across the state Tuesday. There were 15 positive cases reported in Lawrence County Tuesday and 10 cases in Knox County Indiana Tuesday. Overall since the pandemic began, there have been a total of 3,019,951 cases of the disease with 32,431 deaths in Illinois. A total of 21,024,696 vaccinations have been administered at sites across Illinois since the vaccine rollout began with over 4.1 million booster doses given. The Lawrence County vaccination numbers are slowly inching up according to the IDPH. 37.78% of the county total population has now been fully vaccinated with close to 42% receiving at least 1 dose of the vaccine. There have been 2,377 booster doses given in Lawrence County.