Frankfort Area Coronavirus Cases Increased By 43 Over 8 Days

FRANKFORT, IL — The number of coronavirus cases in the Frankfort area has increased by 43 cases over the past week, according to data from the Will County Health Department. Frankfort (ZIP code 60423) has 295 cases as of Aug. 6, compared to 252 cases on July 29, which represents a 17 percent increase.

Attendees of a private prom are being advised to self-quarantine after cases of the coronavirus were reported. The Will County Health Department said contact tracers spoke to residents from the Frankfort area who had tested positive for the coronavirus and discovered they had attended a gathering in Indiana.

The gathering was a private prom in Hobart, Indiana, organized by Lincoln-Way East graduates. The health department said it discovered that up to 270 people, including high school age students and chaperones, had attended the event.

Here is the growth in the coronavirus case numbers for the past six weeks in Frankfort. The data comes from the Will County Health Department and the number of cases reported in ZIP code 60423.

Health authorities do not provide the number of deaths or recoveries by municipality.

Since testing began, IDPH reporting a total of 4,693 tests have been performed for ZIP code 60423.

In nearby towns in the Lincoln-Way area, both Mokena (ZIP code 60448) and New Lenox (ZIP code 60451) have fewer cases, with 225 and 272 cases, respectively, as of Aug. 6. Manhattan (ZIP code 60442) has 79 cases, according to data from the county health department.

As of Friday, Illinois' coronavirus case count was 190,508 and the coronavirus has claimed the lives of 7,613 Illinois residents. In Will County, there have been 9,013 cases of the coronavirus and 345 related deaths.

The state recently developed new resurgence criteria to identify early but significant increases of coronavirus transmission. With the new criteria, the state also developed new emergency management regions, and Will County is now part of region 7.

According to IDPH, as of data available on Aug. 7, region 7 has had four days of test positivity increases and four days of hospital admission increases. Hospital availability for region 7, which includes Will and Kankakee counties, has 34 percent of medical-surgical beds available and 36 percent of ICU beds available.

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