The McHenry County Department of Health reported 999 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 over the weekend. This includes cases reported on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
There were no additional deaths connected to COVID-19 reported.
That brings the county's total case count to 9,169 confirmed cases, 120 related deaths and five probable deaths. The county's recovery rate currently sits at 98%.
McHenry County residents have been tested a total of 119,300 times since the pandemic began, according to county-specific data collected by the Illinois Department of Public Health.
The Lake County Health Department reported a total of 25,330 confirmed cases and 529 related deaths Monday.
The Kane County Health Department reported a total of 22,192 confirmed cases and 363 deaths.
Statewide, the IDPH reported a total of 498,560 confirmed cases and 10,210 related deaths. So far, Illinois has conducted 8,469,064 COVID-19 tests. The statewide recovery rate is 97%.
The McHenry County health department has been reporting on four metrics designed to help school administrators decide when it may be safe to gradually begin reopening schools or when to return to a hybrid or remote learning approach.
The metrics used on the dashboard are incidence rate (number of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people a day), test positivity rate (percentage of COVID-19 tests that come back positive), the trend of hospital admissions for COVID-19-like illness and the weekly count of new confirmed cases.
The first three of these four metrics are reported Monday through Friday based on a seven-day rolling average of the data with all but the incident rate reported on a three-day lag. The weekly count of new cases will be updated once a week, also with a three-day lag, according to the health department.
The incident rate is being reported on a five-day lag because of a data backlog, according to the dashboard. According to the advisory, the backlog is only affecting the chart and is not the result of a delay in the processing of laboratory data.
On Monday, the incidence rate increased from 45 cases to 54 cases per 100,000 residents, above the upper threshold of 14 cases recommended by the health department in its reopening plan as one indicator for considering a return to remote learning.
The county's test positivity rate increased from 15.9% to 17.8% on Monday, exceeding the threshold of 8% for when schools might consider moving back to remote learning.
There were 13 hospital admissions for COVID-19-like illness reported Monday, an increase over the previous week.
The weekly case count reported for the week of Oct. 25 showed 915 new cases, 123 of which were identified in children ages 3 to 18, according to the dashboard.
Among McHenry County ZIP codes, Crystal Lake (60014) has the highest number of COVID-19 cases with a total of 1,379 confirmed cases, according to county data. Woodstock (60098) follows with 1,182 cases.
The McHenry County health department reports only ZIP code data that is located within McHenry County, a department spokeswoman said. Any discrepancies between county and IDPH numbers likely are because of the data's provisional nature and because each health department finalizes its data at different times, she said.
The following is the rest of the local breakdown of cases by ZIP code: Lake in the Hills (60156) 861; McHenry (60050) 836; Algonquin (60102) 760; Huntley (60142) 710; Harvard (60033) 691; Johnsburg and McHenry (60051) 574; Cary (60013) 548; Marengo (60152) 394; Crystal Lake, Bull Valley and Prairie Grove (60012) 286; Wonder Lake (60097) 280; Spring Grove (60081) 199; Island Lake (60042) 125; Richmond (60071) 101; Fox River Grove (60021) 88; Hebron (60034) 44; Barrington (60010) 33; Union (60180) 34; and Ringwood and Wonder Lake (60072) 20.