Six new coronavirus cases confirmed in St. Clair, Madison counties
St. Clair and Madison counties each announced three new coronavirus cases Thursday.
In St. Clair County, the new patients include a man in his 40s, a man in his 70s and a woman in her 20s. The St. Clair County Health Department said it is believed they were all exposed to the virus in the community.
Details about the new Madison County patients were not immediately available.
No deaths have been reported in southwestern Illinois.
Another person has also tested positive for coronavirus in Clinton County, according to test results from Thursday. A man in his 30s is the county’s fifth positive case.
The Clinton County Health Department said he had contact with a confirmed positive COVID-19 patient in California. He is from out-of-state but had been working in Clinton County and was diagnosed there. The health department said he is now quarantined at home in another state.
On Wednesday, seven others tested positive for COVID-19 in the metro-east. The BND initially reported six new cases Wednesday because the state’s tally at 2:30 p.m. did not include one resident whose test result came back positive on Wednesday afternoon. That person is a woman in her 60s from Monroe County who health officials say had contact with a COVID-19 patient.
Twenty-eight coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the metro-east as of Thursday with the new cases in St. Clair, Madison and Clinton counties and the previously unreported case in Monroe County.
In total, there are now 13 cases in St. Clair County, six in Madison, five in Clinton, one in Washington and three in Monroe.
In Illinois, the total amount of cases rose by 673, and seven new deaths were announced, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, said Thursday.
