Gov. Pritzker warning of stricter measures of COVID-19 numbers don’t improve

Posted on August 24, 2021
Gov. JB Pritzker. (Facebook/Gov. JB Pritzker)

By WJBC Staff

SPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker is warning that significantly stricter measures could be put back into place if COVID-19 numbers don’t improve.

With the cases on the rise, the Governor says his office is looking at all the options for again slowing the spread of the virus.

“I will remind you that if we are not able to bring these numbers down if hospitals continue to fill if hospital beds and ICU’s get full like they are in Kentucky, that’s just next door to Illinois; if that happens, we are going to have to impose significantly greater mitigations.”

All but one Illinois county, Carroll, is considered at high risk for transmission of the virus.

“Those are things that we don’t want to go back to,” added the Governor. “Those are phases, situations, things on the menu that I think we don’t want to go to. But, right now, I think again, we want everybody to wear a mask everywhere, indoors, we’ve recommended that’s what the CDC has recommended.”

More than half of the state’s 11 designated regions are at warning levels for the number of ICU beds available.

Blake haas can be reached at [email protected].

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