Nearly 200-Thousand Daily COVID Tests Administered Per Day In Illinois

Exam Corp Lab employee, left, conducts a COVID-19 test at the parking lot of the facility in Niles, Ill., Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

With nearly 19-thousand new COVID-19 cases reported in the state Thursday, people are lining up to get tested in Chicago. The city’s positivity rate has increased to eight-point-six percent currently as Chicago is now averaging more than 23-hundred new cases per day. With the holiday weekend upon us, residents are trying to get a test prior to gathering with family and friends. Illinois is now averaging more than 198-thousand COVID tests administered per day.