Appointments in Champaign County for second COVID-19 booster shots are expected to begin next week, and they’re coming at a time when a new variant is gaining fast.
Champaign County is now joined by Douglas County and a dozen others in the state considered to be at “medium” transmission risk level for COVID-19.
CHAMPAIGN — Champaign County’s last free community-wide testing sites for COVID-19 operated by the SHIELD CU program are coming to an end soon.
HB 4481 would expand a state roadway camera monitoring program to state highways and expressways in 21 counties, including Champaign, Boone, Bureau, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Henry, Kane, Kendall, Lake, LaSalle, Macon, Madison, McHenry, Morgan, Peoria, Rock Island, Sangamon, St. Clair, Will and Winnebago.
Carle Health has scheduled pop-up COVID-19 booster shot clinics in Champaign-Urbana for the next two weekends.
The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District reported 184 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday.
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Champaign County declined Tuesday to 547 — 63 fewer than on Monday.
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Champaign County stood at 610 Monday.
The coronavirus experience has taken a psychological and physical toll on everyone.
Champaign and Piatt counties are among four counties in the state at a medium COVID transmission level.
Thursday’s COVID-19 update from the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District included 131 new cases in the past day.
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Champaign County declined again Wednesday, though 133 county residents tested positive in the past day.
A day after a Florida judge struck down a federal requirement to wear masks aboard public transportation, the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District announced it is ending its own mask mandates for bus travel, effective immediately.
The number of currently active cases in the county declined overnight by 45, to 669.
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Champaign County declined over the holiday weekend, but there were still hundreds more active cases than there were a week ago.
The Illinois Department of Public Health has bumped up what it considers to be the COVID-19 transmission level in Champaign County from low to medium.
The number of currently active COVID-19 cases in Champaign County continued to rise by more than 100 a day, totaling 804 on Thursday.
A pair of downtown Champaign bars under the same liquor license have to remain closed until May 1, as a result of disciplinary action taken by the city.
It’s not over till it’s over.
Gibson Area Hospital and Health Services, Gibson City, is one of six rural health care providers to share in more than $3 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding to increase COVID-19 testing and vaccines and to improve health outcomes.
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Champaign County has grown to 700, according to the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District Wednesday.
COVID-19 cases are rising enough in Champaign County for a public health official to advise older adults and those with health conditions to begin wearing face masks again, especially when they’re indoors.
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Champaign County has about doubled since the start of April.
The biggest of all the grants — $500,000 — would go to the Sangamon Valley Public Water District to help extend water service to homes north of Mahomet whose individual wells were affected in 2016 by a leak from the nearby Peoples Gas storage field.
Champaign County had 437 active COVID-19 cases as of Monday, according to the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District.
Active COVID-19 cases in Champaign County rose to 365 Friday.
Active cases, new cases and hospitalizations in Champaign County were all on the rise Thursday.
CHAMPAIGN — The number of active COVID-19 cases in Champaign County declined again Wednesday by 11, to 164.
CHAMPAIGN — The number of active COVID-19 cases in Champaign County fell by 82 Tuesday, to 175.
Active COVID-19 cases in Champaign County declined over the weekend.
Champaign County is heading into the weekend with just a slight uptick in active cases.
The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District has opened registration for appointments for second COVID-19 booster shots.
COVID-19 cases in Champaign County rose by 80 Thursday, and the number of active cases continued to trend up.
Appointments in Champaign County for second COVID-19 booster shots are expected to begin next week, and they’re coming at a time when a new variant is gaining fast.
Another 94 Champaign County residents tested positive for COVID-19 in the past day, according to the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District.
Starting next Monday, Urbana School District 116 will no longer require its students and staff to wear masks after the board voted. 5-2, to accept the administration’s recommendation to do so.
COVID-19 hospitalizations declined on Tuesday as Champaign County saw its number of active cases rise a bit.
COVID-19 cases in Champaign County rose by 17 in the past day, according to the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District.
Champaign County has set aside $2 million of its $40.8 million bonanza of American Rescue Plan Act funds to help with badly needed sewer, water and drainage projects in small towns and rural areas of the county.
COVID-19 testing sites operated by both the state and Carle Health are set to close soon due to a sharp drop in demand.
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Champaign County rose again Friday to 211.
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Champaign County inched up a bit Thursday to 170.
As the new COVID-19 “stealth" omicron subvariant BA.2 continues to pick up steam across the U.S., it’s believed to have already arrived in Champaign County.
COVID-19 indicators in Champaign County continued to trend up a bit Wednesday.
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Champaign County crept back up past 100 Tuesday.
Promise Healthcare has closed its off-site COVID-19 testing and vaccination facility, effective Monday, but is still making those services available by appointment inside its Frances Nelson Health Center, 819 Bloomington Road, C.
The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District reported 36 new positive COVID-19 cases in the past day.
COVID-19 indicators were up slightly in Champaign County Friday.
Champaign County picked up nine new COVID-19 cases in the past day, according to the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District.
The number of currently active COVID-19 cases in Champaign County has fallen to 58.
COVID-19 is still around, but indicators for Champaign County continue to show transmission slowing down.