If COVID-19 numbers don’t spike, Governor JB Pritzker says regions of Illinois may be able to lift some mitigations come January 15th.
The state didn’t see a big increase in cases after Thanksgiving, and the governor says they are hopeful that trend will hold now that Christmas and New Year’s have passed.
“So on January 15th, exactly one incubation period from New Year’s Day, any region that has met the metrics for a reduction of mitigations will be able to move out of Tier 3 of our mitigation plan.”
Those metrics include a test positivity rate of 12 percent of less for at least three days in a row. The governor urges everyone to continue to be careful. The state’s mask mandate has been extended another 150 days.
