Illinois shatters single-day COVID-19 record set a day earlier with nearly 7,000 new cases

CHICAGO — Illinois on Friday reported nearly 7,000 newly confirmed cases of the coronavirus, eclipsing a single-day record set just 24 hours earlier and pushing the total number of known cases since the pandemic began past 400,000. “This is an extraordinarily dangerous time,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said during his daily COVID-19 briefing. “And as a result, we must do everything in our power to …

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