Mike Stucka
USA TODAY NETWORK
New coronavirus cases leaped in Illinois in the week ending Sunday, rising 46.3% as 11,682 cases were reported. The previous week had 7,983 new cases of the virus that causes COVID-19.
Illinois ranked 27th among the states where coronavirus was spreading the fastest on a per-person basis, a USA TODAY Network analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the latest week coronavirus cases in the United States increased 53.6% from the week before, with 559,334 cases reported. With 3.81% of the country's population, Illinois had 2.09% of the country's cases in the last week. Across the country, 50 states had more cases in the latest week than they did in the week before.