In Saturday’s daily COVID-19 update, Illinois reported 2,450 new cases with 105 additional deaths. The state has now confirmed 58,505 cases including 2,559 deaths. Laboratories in the state processed 15,208 tests in the previous 24 hours for a total of nearly 300,000.
Governor JB Pritzker said the number of reported cases has risen due to greatly increased testing, and the infection rate among the number of tests is falling.
