The Daily Illini COVID-19 updates for May 14: U.S. reaches 10 million tests, global death count passes 300,000

By Ethan Simmons, News Editor

Barring a surge of positive tests or overwhelmed hospitals, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Thursday that all regions of Illinois are “poised” to move onto phase 3 of his “Restore Illinois” plan by May 29.

The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District announced 11 more cases of the coronavirus in Champaign County on Wednesday, pushing the countywide total to 333 cases.

Of the 333 cases, 153 are active, 173 have recovered and seven have died. Three people with active cases are currently hospitalized. Fewer than 5% of Champaign County’s 6,717 tests have proved positive.

About 14.3% of Illinois’ 22,678 new tests proved positive on Thursday. Just 2.6% of 419 new tests were positive in Champaign County.

County health officials recommend anyone with symptoms — fever, cough, shortness of breath, chills, fatigue and loss of taste or smell — to get tested.

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Confirmed cases of coronavirus as of May 13, 11:30 p.m. CDT 

Numbers in (+) indicate increases from the previous day

World: 4,443,793 cases (+95,872); 302,462 deaths (+5,265); 1,588,365 recoveries (+38,972)

United States: 1,417,889 cases (+27,155); 85,906 deaths (+1,787); 246,414 recoveries (+2,984) with 10,341,775 tested (+366,944)

Illinois: 87,937 cases (+3,239); 3,928 deaths (+136) with 512,037 tested (+22,678)

Chicago: 34,341 cases (+1,267); 1,552 deaths (+49)

Champaign County: 333 cases (+11); 7 deaths; 173 recoveries (+5) with 6,717 tested (+419)

Numbers from Johns Hopkins University’s COVID-19 Mapcoronavirus.illinois.gov and c-uphd.org

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