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Weekend COVID-19 figures show 80,017 more shots, 26 deaths, 755 new cases

Another 80,017 COVID-19 vaccine doses were administered over the weekend, state health officials announced Monday.

At the same time, six months after COVID-19 vaccines came to Illinois, 755 new cases of the disease were reported and 26 more COVID-19 deaths were reported since Friday. Just four of those deaths were reported Monday, the lowest single-day total since Aug. 10, 2020, records indicate.

The Illinois Department of Public Health stopped providing daily updates of COVID-19 figures on the weekends as the disease loosens its grip on the state.

Vaccinations over the weekend bring the total number of doses administered statewide to 12,238,547, according to Illinois Department of Public Health figures. Vaccine providers are averaging 41,637 shots a day.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting nearly 68% of the vaccine-eligible population of those 12 and older have received at least one dose.

Since the pandemic began, 23,159 Illinois residents have died and 1,389,443 residents have been infected, according to IDPH records.

Hospitals around the state are treating 454 COVID-19 patients, with 114 of them in intensive care, state records show.

The state's seven-day case positivity rate is 0.6%, which is where it was Friday.

Case positivity allows health officials to track the level of infection within a certain population group. A seven-day average is used to account of any anomalies in the daily reporting of new cases and test results.

Elsewhere, the University of Illinois system announced that all students on campus are required to be immunized with a COVID-19 vaccine.

"This requirement is consistent with our own scientific modeling of the risks associated with the spread of the virus and its variants," university officials announced in a news release.

Guidelines for faculty and staff are still being developed and will be announced later this summer, according to the release.

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