State health officials announced 14 additional COVID-19 deaths Saturday along with 1,467 more infections.

The state’s seven-day average infection rate now stands at 3.9%, that’s up 1.3 percentage points from a month ago when the weekly infection rate was just 2.6%.

The state’s death toll now stands at 7,517, while 181,943 Illinois residents have been infected by the respiratory disease, according to Illinois Department of Public Health figures.