According to the Illinois Regional COVID-19 Resurgence Criteria on the Illinois Department of Public Health website, Region 6 has 4 days of positive increases of COVID-19 in the last 10 days. That number, along with 1-day hospital admission increases over a 10 day span (1), is down from last week.
Since July 31, Champaign, Vermilion, Coles, Douglas, Iroquois and Moultrie counties, all in Region 6, have surpassed the state’s 50 new cases per 100,000 in population, putting them on the IDPH warning list.
Champaign County has added more than 100 new cases a week for each of the past five weeks while Vermilion County’s total positive COVID-19 cases doubled from July 15 to Aug. 5.
On Wednesday, the Champaign-Urbana Public Health Department reported another 35 positive cases of COVID-19 bringing the total number of active cases in the county to 195. Numbers had been down over the last five days with 16 new cases on Friday and Saturday, 32 cases on Sunday, 16 on Monday and 11 on Tuesday.
The number of people hospitalized declined to 13.
COVID-19 Cases: August 5
Zip code 61851 (Ivesdale): 1 confirmed case, 0 active cases
Zip code 61845 (Foosland): 7 confirmed cases, 0 active cases
Zip code 61843 (Fisher): 30 confirmed cases, 0 active cases
Zip code 61853 (Mahomet): 85 confirmed cases, 7 active cases
Zip code 61875 (Seymour): 6 confirmed cases, 2 active cases
Zip code 61822 (Champaign): 148 confirmed cases, 28 active cases
Zip code 61821 (Champaign): 285 confirmed cases, 36 active cases
Zip code 61820 (Champaign): 254 confirmed cases, 36 active cases
Zip code 61801 (Urbana): 102 confirmed cases, 13 active cases
Zip code 61802 (Urbana): 210 confirmed cases, 24 active cases
Zip code 61873 (St. Joseph): 26 confirmed cases, 2 active cases
Zip code 61878 (Thomasboro): 5 confirmed cases, 1 active case
Zip code 61866 (Rantoul): 253 confirmed cases, 23 active cases
Zip code 60949 (Ludlow): 7 confirmed cases, 1 active cases
Zip code 61847 (Gifford): 3 confirmed case, 1 active cases
Zip code 61862 (Penfield): 1 confirmed case, 0 active cases
Zip code 61849 (Homer): 3 confirmed cases, 0 active cases
Zip code 61877 (Sidney): 14 confirmed cases, 5 active cases
Zip code 61864 (Philo): 7 confirmed case, 5 active case
Zip code 61880 (Tolono): 30 confirmed cases, 7 active cases
Zip code 61863 (Pesotum): 6 confirmed cases, 0 active cases
Zip code 61872 (Sadorus): 3 confirmed cases, 0 active cases
Zip code 61874 (Savoy): 58 confirmed cases, 3 active cases
Zip code 61816 (Broadlands): 1 confirmed case, 1 active
