Coronavirus response | Transmission charge drops to ‘low’ in Champaign and most surrounding counties | Coronavirus

CHAMPAIGN — Group transmission of COVID-19 has continued to say no all through most of East Central Illinois and throughout the state.

Champaign County hit the “low” neighborhood transmission degree Friday after dropping from a summer-long excessive transmission degree to the medium degree per week in the past.

Ford County was the one county in East Central Illinois on the medium degree, with transmission thought-about to be low in the remainder of this space of the state.

Statewide, there have been 14 counties on the medium danger degree, with the remaining on the low degree, based on the Illinois Division of Public Well being Friday.

COVID-19 was nonetheless round, although. Champaign County had 175 recognized energetic circumstances Friday, and 14 county residents have been hospitalized with COVID-19, based on the Champaign-Urbana Public Well being District.