SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois Department of Public Health on Sunday reported the state’s highest one-day total of COVID-19 tests with 19,417 completed in the past 24 hours.

For more than a week, the state has met its long-stated goal of 10,000 daily tests, a trend Gov. J.B. Pritzker has said is key to incrementally lifting the stay-at-home order and other social and economic restrictions. Since the outbreak began, 319,313 tests have been completed.

IDPH also reported 2,994 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday and 63 new deaths, bringing the state’s totals to 61,499 and 2,618, respectively. Ninety-seven of Illinois’ 102 counties have reported cases and 45 have reported deaths. Many of those infected, however, have recovered.

As of midnight Saturday, 4,701 people were in Illinois hospitals with the novel coronavirus. Of those patients, 1,232 were in an intensive care unit, while 759 were on ventilators.

Although the majority of Illinois COVID-19 cases have been reported in Cook County and the collar counties, the virus remains prevalent downstate when looking at cases per capita.

When comparing IDPH data to the latest population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, the top five counties for cases per 1,000 residents are Cook (8.22), Lake (5.97) and then the downstate counties of Randolph (5.63), Jasper (4.68) and Warren (4.63).