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Latest coronavirus numbers across Illinois include 1,343 new cases and 60 new deaths

The Illinois Department of Public Health announced Sunday that 1,343 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 and 60 more people have died statewide.

Illinois has seen a total of 5,390 deaths during the pandemic, officials reported. A total of 120,260 people have been diagnosed with the coronavirus.

An additional 21,154 have been tested for the virus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of administered tests to 898,259, IDPH said in a news release.

Illinois moved into Phase 3 of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s Restore Illinois reopening plan on Friday.

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Kelsey Landis is an Illinois state affairs and politics reporter for the Belleville News-Democrat. She joined the newsroom in January 2020 after her first stint at the paper from 2016 to 2018. She graduated from Southern Illinois University in 2010 and earned a master’s from DePaul University in 2014. Landis previously worked at The Alton Telegraph. At the BND, she focuses on informing you about what your lawmakers are doing in Springfield and Washington, D.C., and she works to hold them accountable. Landis has won Illinois Press Association awards for her work, including the Freedom of Information Award.
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