Governor JB Pritzker is warning that significantly stricter measures will be put back into place if COVID-19 numbers don’t improve. With cases on the rise, the governor says his office is looking at all the options for again slowing the spread of the virus.
“I will remind you that if we are not able to bring these numbers down, if hospitals continue to fill, if the hospital beds and ICU’s get full like they are in Kentucky; if that happens, we are going to have to impose significantly greater mitigations. Those are things that we don’t want to go back to. Those are phases, situations, things on the menu that I think we don’t want to go to, but right now I think, you know again, we want everybody to wear a mask everywhere indoors and we have recommended that. That is what the CDC has recommended.”
All but one Illinois County, Carroll, is considered at high risk for transmission for the virus. More than half of the state’s 11 designated regions are at warning levels for the number of ICU beds available.
***Report Courtesy of the Illinois Department of Central Management Services***
