Covid-19: Wednesday, July 1

Today's statistics for Covid-19/Evanston residents

Confirmed cases: 795 (two new cases since yesterday).

Deaths: 69 (no additional deaths since yesterday), according to the City’s website. Covid-19 Q&A with Mayor Hagerty and City staff

Mayor Hagerty and City staff discussed Phase 4 public health guidelines and the City's reopening and recovery plans yesterday. You can watch that Q&A here.

Covid-19 statistics for Illinois Illinois health officials today reported 828 new known cases of COVID-19 and 30 additional confirmed fatalities, bringing the total number of known cases to 144,013 and the confirmed death toll to 6,951.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned the United States is “going in the wrong direction” as novel coronavirus cases surge across the country and said he “would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around.”