It's official: Each of our four Restore Illinois health regions has hit our @IDPH health benchmarks for advancing into the next phase. Because of your commitment to being #AllInIllinois, Phase 3 will begin tomorrow, May 29. 
✔️ 1. At or under a 20 percent positivity rate and increasing no more than 10 percentage points over a 14-day period
✔️ 2. No overall increase — so stability or a decrease — in hospital admissions for COVID-19-like illness for 28 days
✔️ 3. Available surge capacity of at least 14 percent of ICU beds, medical and surgical beds, and ventilators
Starting tomorrow, all areas of the state are eligible to reopen in accordance with Restore Illinois Phase 3 — including outdoor dining, outdoor recreation, manufacturing, retail, personal care services and offices, all with safety measures in place.
Our next health metrics calendar will restart tomorrow & run for the same 28-day period — meaning that regions meeting the metrics could move into Phase 4 possibly as early as Friday, June 26.
We'll all be watching the metrics closely in hopes we will move forward expeditiously.
We'll all be watching the metrics closely in hopes we will move forward expeditiously.
As things open back up, it’s so important that we remain careful about continuing to wear face coverings, washing hands, maintaining 6 feet distance, wiping down surfaces, using hand sanitizer and other mitigations.
Let’s not move backward, but instead forward, together.
Let’s not move backward, but instead forward, together.
