2021-07-29 23:36:10 GMT2021-07-30 07:36:10(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
CHICAGO, July 29 (Xinhua) Chicago s average number of daily new COVID-19 cases inched up to 190 on Thursday as the third largest U.S. city kicked off Lollapalooza, an annual music festival launched in Chicago in 1991.
The musical festival may attract hundreds of thousands of visitors, as it did in the past years.
Hours after Lollapalooza got underway, Cook County was added to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s (CDC) list of areas experiencing substantial COVID-19 transmission. Cook County now joined DuPage, McHenry and Will counties in the Chicago area, and 80 others statewide, in meeting the threshold where masks are recommended for everyone indoors, regardless of vaccination status, the Chicago Tribune reported on Thursday.
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