SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Not necessarily the news you want to hear going into Fathers Day and Juneteenth this weekend, but not as bad as it could be.
The Illinois Department of Public Health says Woodford County joins Peoria and Tazewell Counties on the list of counties the CDC terms as having high levels of community spread of COVID-19.
Woodford County had been at low and medium spread, even as the other two tri-counties were high.
The state says 25 counties are now at high community spread levels, while 39 are at medium.
This, as Illinois reports 27,000 new cases statewide in the last week. Currently more than 1,100 are in the hospital, with about ten percent of those being in Intensive Care Units.
The state says there was a ten percent uptick in cases over the Memorial Day weekend.
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