Illinois' statewide case positivity rate continues to decline.  And The Iroquois, Ford and Kankakee County areas arenow allowed to make adjustments and get business activity moving again.

Region 6 (including Iroquois, Ford, Champaign and Vermilion Counties) returns to Phase 4 of the Restore Illinois Plan.  Region 7 (Kankakee and Will County) advances to Tier 1.  The IDPH website has regions listed and their positions.

The Illinois Department of Public Health announced (Thursday) that Region 7, which includes Will and Kankakee counties, was moved to Tier 1 mitigations, while Region 6 in east-central Illinois moved back to base Phase 4 guidelines.
That left only Region 4 in the Metro East region near the St. Louis, Missouri, border in the strictest Tier 3 mitigations.

Regions can move downward if test positivity rates meet certain levels, hospitalizations for COVID-19 decrease for at least seven of 10 days and at least 20 percent of hospital and intensive care beds remain unoccupied.

To move to Phase 4, a positivity rate must remain below 6.5 percent for three straight days, while a rate between 6.5 percent and 8 percent allows movement to Tier 1 mitigations and a rate from 8-12 percent allows movement to Tier 2 mitigations from Tier 3.

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