New COVID cases and hospitalizations continued their recent downward trends on Thursday, as health officials reported more than 14,000 new cases of the virus.
In fact, hospitalizations have decreased by 34.6% since they peaked at 7,380 on Jan. 13, according to IDPH data.
Over the last 24 hours, the state reported 149 additional COVID-related deaths, but the average number of deaths per day has started to decrease, down to 123 per day over the last week. Testing is seeing a more steady decline, with 224,498 tests performed in the last 24 hours. The state is now averaging fewer than 200,000 tests per day for the first time since Jan. 7.
Nearly 50.6 million COVID tests have been performed in the state of Illinois since the pandemic began.
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