Nearly 12-hundred-50 new COVID-19 cases are being reported in Illinois. Health officials announced the new cases yesterday, along with 22 additional deaths. Over 12-hundred people in the state are hospitalized for COVID-19 related illnesses, with 150 on ventilators. More than two-point-seven million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the entire state. The state is closing in on one-point-two million total cases of the virus and over 20-thousand have died since the pandemic began.