Spike In Coronavirus Positivity Across All Parts Of Plainfield

PLAINFIELD, IL — As coronavirus numbers in the state and Will County continue to move in the wrong direction, Plainfield is also showing spikes in the positivity rates across all zip codes, along with an increase in the average number of cases reported per 100,000 people.

According to data gathered from the Illinois Department of Public Health, as of Sunday, the south side of the village (zip code 60586) has an average 7-day rolling COVID-19 positivity rate of 9.8 percent, whereas the north side (zip code 60585) is at 8.5 percent and the central part (zip code 60544) has a 7.07 percent positivity rate.

The weekly new case rate per 100,000 people is at 206 for Plainfield-central, 162 for Plainfield-north and 177 for Plainfield-south. All three numbers have increased significantly and are at their highest since August.

The Will-Kankakee region could see mitigations once again as the positivity rate continues to rise. Any region that sustains an 8 percent positivity rate for three days in a row or sees an increase in positivity rates and simultaneous decrease in hospital capacity will need to implement additional community mitigation interventions, the IDPH website states.

The region currently has a positivity rate of 7.3 percent, which is a significant increase from Thursday's 6.6 percent. The region is also seeing 8 consecutive days of positivity increase, putting it in the warning level for this metric.

Five weeks after being dropped from the IDPH's list of state counties at the warning level, and four weeks after additional mitigations were dropped for Region 7, Will County again finds itself listed as one of Illinois' "warning level" counties.

Counties appear on the IDPH Warning Level list when they have hit two of a variety of factors showing signs of increased Coronavirus activity. One is a rate of new COVID-19 cases that is over 50 per 100,000 residents. For Will County, the week of Oct. 4-10 showed 133 new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents (the previous week's level was 87). The second factor Will County hit was a substantial increase in the amount of COVID-19 deaths, a release from the health department states.

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