The McHenry County Department of Health reported 36 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and one additional confirmed death Thursday.

This brings the county’s totals to 24,527 confirmed cases, 262 confirmed deaths and 29 deaths where the cause was likely COVID-19 but not confirmed. The county’s recovery rate currently sits at 98%.

The county’s latest death tied to COVID-19 was of a man in his 70s, according to data from the Illinois Department of Public Health.

According to McHenry County’s COVID-19 dashboard, 55% of deaths – 161 of 291 – have been associated with long-term care facilities while 80% of hospitalizations – 1,274 of 1,589 – were not.

McHenry County residents have been tested a total of 272,425 times since the pandemic began, according to county-specific data collected by the IDPH.

As of Tuesday, the IDPH reported a total of 2,993,543 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered statewide and 56,180 in McHenry County. So far, 5.02% (15,501 of 308,570) of county residents have been fully vaccinated, meaning they’ve received all of the doses recommended for the vaccine they received.

McHenry County received a total of 45,980 doses of COVID-19 vaccine between the county began receiving shipments from the state on Dec. 27 and Thursday, according to McHenry County’s COVID-19 dashboard. This number is comprised of 26,110 first doses of the vaccine and 19,870 second doses, according to the dashboard.

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Last month, Region 9 moved from Tier 1 to Phase 4, allowing for competitive high school sports to play, loosening capacity limits for retail and personal care businesses and enabling restaurants to serve parties of up to 10 people. Reaching Phase 5 of Gov. JB Pritzker’s reopening plan will come only when infection rates are minimal and/or more Illinois residents have been vaccinated.

The region could return to increased mitigations if:

First, either the region’s positivity rate rises to 8% or higher for three consecutive days or sees a sustained increase in test positivity rate.

As of Thursday, McHenry County’s positivity rate was 5.3% and Region 9 was at 3.5%, marking the region’s 40th day under the threshold. The positivity rate for the region has fallen nine of the last 10 days.

Second, the region must also see either a sustained increase in COVID patients in hospital or staffed intensive care unit bed availability falls below 20% for three consecutive days.

As of Thursday, Region 9 had 30% of its ICU beds available and McHenry County had 30.1%. Region 9 also reported six days of decreases in hospital admissions for COVID-19 out of the past 10 days.

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The Kane County Health Department reported a total of 50,596 confirmed cases and 723 deaths Thursday.

The Lake County Health Department reported a total of 55,176 confirmed cases and 926 related deaths Thursday.

Statewide, the IDPH reported a total of 1,193,260 confirmed cases and 20,688 related deaths. So far, Illinois has conducted 18,389,512 COVID-19 tests. The statewide recovery rate is 98%.

Among McHenry County ZIP codes, Crystal Lake (60014) has the highest number of COVID-19 cases with a total of 3,672 confirmed cases, according to county data. Woodstock (60098) follows with 2,896 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: McHenry (60050) 2,617; Lake in the Hills (60156) 2,238; Algonquin (60102) 1,830; Huntley (60142) 1,802; Cary (60013) 1,715; Johnsburg and McHenry (60051) 1,654; Harvard (60033) 1,412; Marengo (60152) 999; Crystal Lake, Bull Valley and Prairie Grove (60012) 873; Wonder Lake (60097) 779; Spring Grove (60081) 604; Island Lake (60042) 332; Fox River Grove (60021) 293; Richmond (60071) 275; Hebron (60034) 140; Barrington (60010) 113; Union (60180) 103; and Ringwood and Wonder Lake (60072) 51.