Illinois reports lowest coronavirus daily death toll since March

FILE - Clinical support technician Douglas Condie extracts viruses from swab samples so that the genetic structure of a virus can be analysed and identified in the coronavirus testing laboratory at Glasgow Royal Infirmary in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Jane Barlow - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Illinois health officials on Sunday announced 639 new confirmed coronavirus cases and 6 additional deaths.

The latest Illinois Department of Public Health figures bring the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases across the state to 147,251 and the death toll to 7,020.

In the past 24 hours, laboratories in Illinois have processed 27,235 virus tests for a total of 1,761,706.