Tables must also be 6 feet apart and reservations should be required for each party. Indoor service reservations must be limited to a two-hour max with a maximum of four people per party and is recommended to only be with members of the same household.Īll bar and restaurant patrons should be seated at tables, and must not be ordering, seating or congregating at the bar as bar stools should be removed. Establishments offering indoor service must also serve food, according to IDPH. Indoor services will also be allowed, however, at a capacity of 25 guests or less, or 25% capacity per room. Under Tier 1, all bars and restaurants must be closed from 11 p.m. All other regions of the state are continuing to operate under Tier 3 mitigations, according to health officials. Pritzker announced Regions 1, 2 and 5 would move down to Tier 2. There were 533 patients in intensive care unit beds for COVID-19 as of Monday night, a decrease of 18 from the day prior, and 265 patients using ventilators as of Monday, a decrease of 13 from the day prior.Health officials said the region has met the COVID-19 health metrics to ease mitigations. More: Chrysler employees at Belvidere Assembly Plant will soon be eligible for COVID-19 vaccineĪs of Monday night, there were 2,447 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Illinois, an increase of 60 from the day before. Over the previous seven days, the state vaccinated an average of 44,139 individuals per day, including a total of 32,559 doses administered Monday. Of those, 163,592 doses were administered, or about 33 percent. About 496,100 doses have been allocated to the federal government’s Pharmacy Partnership program for long-term care facilities. To date, 1,028,969 vaccines have been administered in Illinois out of 1,951,925 total doses, or about 53%.

The Winnebago County Health Department reported that 19,817 doses of the vaccine have now been administered. That's an increase of 66 cases and no additional deaths from Monday. In Winnebago County, there have been 27,357 cases and 401 deaths from the coronavirus to date, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. The state reported 2,304 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday out of 60,899 test results reported over the previous 24 hours, making a one-day positivity rate of 3.8%.Īn additional 47 deaths were reported Tuesday, bringing the statewide virus death toll since the pandemic began to 19,306 out of more than 1.1 million cases and 16.1 million test results reported. The state’s rolling positivity rate is the lowest it’s been since Oct. The regional movement among tiers and phase 4 comes as the state’s rolling seven-day average positive test rate ticked downward to 3.7%, declining two-tenths of a percentage point from the previous day. Louis border is the only region still in Tier 2, which prohibits indoor dining or drinking, because the region has shown availability of ICU beds at 20% or more for only one day.

Region 4 in the Metro East area on the St. More: Illinois' COVID-19 numbers continue to improve amid widespread reopening Region 8, which covers Kane and DuPage counties, and Region 9, which covers Lake and McHenry counties, have not yet seen three straight days below 6.5% but will likely achieve that metric by Wednesday, the state reported. Movement from Tier 2 to Tier 1 requires positivity rates between 6.5% and 8% for three days, and the same ICU bed and hospitalization requirements as Tier 1 to Phase 4. In order to move from Tier 1 to Phase 4, regions must have positive test rates at 6.5% or below for three days as well as intensive care unit bed availability at 20% for three consecutive days, and no sustained increase in COVID hospitalizations. Regions 8 and 9 remain in Tier 1 restrictions, which means indoor dining and bar service is allowed in a limited capacity. More: ADs, coaches rush to prepare for shortened Rockford-area high school sports season Regions 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10 and 11 have all entered Phase 4, meaning indoor dining and competitive high school sports can resume in those areas. SPRINGFIELD - On Tuesday, suburban Cook County moved into more relaxed COVID-19 restrictions, leaving only three of the state’s 11 COVID-19 mitigation regions still under Tier 1 and Tier 2 restrictions.

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