Wabash Valley, state, national and worldwide case numbers

Wabash Valley, state, national and worldwide case numbers

2-wabash 2-wabash valley county health departments are reporting their first covid-19 cases.

Meanwhile... the number of cases in indiana and illinois continues to climb.

First... let's take a look at the wabash valley cases.

The clay county health department is reporting its first positive covid-19 case.

Officials say the person is self-isolating at home and self-isolating at home and they will not release any other details about that patient.

Greene county health officials are also reporting the first confirmed case there.

Just yesterday... the vigo county health department reported the first covid-19 death in the valley.

Health officials are also reporting 2-new cases in vigo county.

Cases have also been reported in vermillion and sullivan counties in indiana and in cumberland county, illinois.

Now a look at the statewide case numbers.

In indiana... there are now more than a thousand positive cases.

31-hoosiers have died.

In illinois... there are 4-hundred and 65 new cases... and 13 new deaths.

As we told you at the start of the newscast... one of those dead is an infant under a year old.

Illinois governor j-b pritzker made the announcement at the daily briefing this afternoon.

The illinois department of public health director says this is the first time an infant has died with the virus.

An investigation is underway to determine the official cause of death.

Older adults are at greater risk.

According to officials... 85-percent of illinois deaths are people 60 and over.

Governor pritzker is pleading with people to take this seriously... alongside the health director.

"i'm sounding like a broken record because the truth remains the truth.

These actions will help us end this pandemic.

We must continue to take this coronavirus seriously.

Even if you might only have a mild illness, that same illness spread to someone else could have a very tragic result."

The infant died in chicago.

The infant tragic result."

The infant died in chicago.

It's the area that's been hardest hit in illinois.

Governor pritzker also announced the opening of the state's first field hospital at the mccormick place convention center.

That's as hospitals continually need more beds.

The u-s army core of engineers and the city of chicago are supporting those efforts.

The united states is now leading the world with coronavirus cases.

More than a hundred thousand people in this country have tested positive for covid-19.

According to numbers from johns hopkins university... more than 6-hundred people have died in new york... more than a hundred have died in washington state... more than 50 deaths have been reported out of new jersey and louisiana.

Worldwide there are more than 6-hundred thousand cases and around 30-thousand deaths.

Again... according to johns hopkins... roughly a hundred and 40-thousand people have recovered