'High' level wouldn't necessarily mean the mask rule comes back, officials said.
Chicago is expected to increase to a “high” community level of COVID-19 next week as positive cases continue rising across the city and suburbs, public health officials said Friday, mirroring the surge of infections around other parts of the country.“While we remain in medium, I expect that we will reach a high level as soon as next week given ongoing COVID trends,” Chicago’s public health Commissioner Allison Arwady said in Friday’s statement.
Hospitalizations have been rising statewide, with the number of COVID-19 patients in Illinois hospitals surpassing 1,000 on Monday for the first time since late February. On Thursday, there were 1,060 coronavirus patients in the state’s hospitals, up from 909 a week earlier and 568 the previous month. Hospitalizations reached an all-time high of 7,380 on Jan. 12, the height of the omicron surge.
In the past week, an average of 1,172 Chicagoans tested positive for COVID-19, up from an average of 922 new daily cases the week before, according to the Chicago Department of Public Health. Meanwhile, hospital admissions have stayed the same the past two weeks, with an average of 18 hospitalizations a day, and deaths have averaged one to two a day, still the lowest rate of the pandemic, the statement said.
As of Thursday evening, nearly 2,000 students and about 300 adults were in isolation because they tested positive for COVID-19 or in quarantine because they are an unvaccinated close contact of an infected person. In February, the district cut the quarantine and isolation period for students and staff members from 10 to five days. In March, the district dropped its universal mask mandate.
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