Wisconsin’s Supreme Court struck down the governor’s stay-at-home order this week in what many regarded as a partisan decision, prompting bars to immediately open and welcome crowds of customers. Pritzker warned neighboring states could face a reckoning, as people gathering will surely spread the outbreak.

Illinois Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike reported 2,432 new COVID-19 cases Friday, bringing the state total to 90,369. Some 130 new deaths took the statewide toll to 4,058. But the number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals, under intensive care, and on ventilators all declined again day to day. The 26,565 tests conducted produced just a 9 percent positivity rate.

“The positivity rate in Illinois is coming down,” Pritzker said, citing how it stood at 12 percent over the last seven days, was under 14 percent for the last 14 days, and stood at 23.6 percent as recently as April 4.

“Testing is fundamental to our ability to reopen the economy while controlling the spread of the virus,” Pritzker said. “That’s what it takes to keep the public safe while getting people back to work and back into the world.”

Illinois has more than 250 COVID-19 testing sites across the state, including seven drive-through locations. The governor announced new drive-through locations opening next week on Chicago’s South Side and in Champaign, Rolling Meadows, and Peoria, which will also offer walk-up services. A Bloomington drive-through site Pritzker said has been underused will nonetheless remain open through next Friday.

The Department of Public Health urged all individuals with symptoms to seek free testing at these sites, along with the following individuals with or without COVID-like symptoms: 

• Health-care workers  
• First responders
• Employees of correctional facilities
• Individuals exposed to confirmed COVID-19 patients
• Employees that support critical infrastructure (grocery stores, pharmacies, restaurants, gas stations, public utilities, factories, child care and sanitation)
• All local and state government employees and 
• Individuals with compromised immune systems or chronic medical conditions

Symptoms are defined as fever, cough, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, new loss of taste or smell.

Illinois has a statewide list of testing sites online.