For all of last week, Illinois public health officials reported 2,945 COVID-19 cases and 53 additional deaths. As of Friday’s latest report, there have been a total of 228 cases of the Delta variant in the state since the state’s been tracking the different mutations. As for cases of people getting COVID-19 despite being vaccinated, the state reports 518 people with breakthrough cases have been hospitalized and 141 died since the beginning of the year.

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