According to CDPH, eight states with daily case rates below 15 per 100,000 residents could be removed from the Chicago Travel Advisory next week.
"For any state or territory to be removed from the Travel Advisory, it must have a daily COVID-19 case rate of under 15 for two consecutive weeks," according to the Chicago Department of Public Health."For the first time in months there are now more states not on our COVID-19 Travel Advisory than there are on it," said CDPH Commissioner Allison Arwady.
That person, Patricia Frieson, was from Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood. According to the city, she was the first person in Illinois to die from COVID-19 on March 16, 2020. Tragically, her sister passed away just days later, too, and more than 7,500 other Chicagoans have died from COVID-related causes in the two years since.
"It's been a long, challenging two years since COVID-19 first hit home here in Chicago," Lightfoot said."Our health care and other front-line workers have been heroes, and I can't imagine what the toll would have been without them. But we have lost too many lives, including Patricia Frieson and unfortunately thousands more.
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