City of Elgin issued the following announcement on Oct. 30.
Governor Pritzker announced that Region 10 (which includes Cook County portion of Elgin) will have mitigation measures imposed beginning this Wednesday, October 28. This includes the same measures put in place on Kane County last Friday, including no indoor dining for bars and restaurants and group gatherings are limited to 25 (a full list of mitigation measures can be found in the Tier 1 column of the Mitigation Plan at cityofelgin.org/mitigation).
Unlike Kane County, Region 10 had multiple metrics which triggered these mitigations. Region 10 has had eight consecutive days of increases in test positivity and seven days of increased hospital admissions, making it the first region in the state to meet the metrics for additional mitigations in this way and surpass warning levels in two categories simultaneously.
You can view the entire press release from the State of Illinois here.
Threshold for Mitigations
If the positivity rate in Region 10 averages less than or equal to 6.5% over a three-day period, there is a decrease in hospital admissions for COVID-19 like illness over a three-day period, and the three-day rolling averages of ICU bed availability and medical/surgical bed availability is greater than or equal to 20% over a seven-day period, the region will return to Phase 4 mitigations under the Restore Illinois Plan. Conversely, if the average positivity rate continues to increase over seven out of 10 days and the hospital admissions for COVID-19 like illness continues to increase over seven out of 10 days, more stringent mitigations can be applied. If the metrics remain stable, the region will continue to be monitored.
Original source can be found here.
Source: City of Elgin
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