State health director Ezike to step down March 14
— March 1, 2022SPRINGFIELD – Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike will resign on March 14 after three years leading the agency and two years navigating a deadly pandemic…
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike will resign on March 14 after three years leading the agency and two years navigating a deadly pandemic…
Due to the continued decrease in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, and increase in available ICU beds, Gov. J.B. Pritzker is lifting the state’s indoor mask requirement beginning…
With the current surge of COVID-19 cases due to the highly contagious Omicron variant, the State of Illinois launched a new vaccine awareness campaign to explain the power of the life-saving…
SPRINGFIELD – Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday, Oct. 19 urged eligible Illinoisans to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot and called on skilled nursing facilities to make booster shots…
This season, in addition to flu, the state continues to battle COVID-19. More than 41 million cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. have been reported, including more than 1.5 million in…
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) continues to urge people to get vaccinated and boosted as it marks the two-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 case reported in Illinois. …
As omicron surges across the state, Gov. J.B. Pritzker warned Monday, Jan. 3 that hospitalizations are about as high as they were last winter before vaccines were widely available….
To help increase capacity and facilitate faster access to COVID-19 testing in schools across the state, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has partnered with the U.S. Health…