Sangamon County has now surpassed 55,000 total cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began, amid signs that case numbers are starting to rise again.
The county has had 147 confirmed new cases in the past week, up 56-percent from the previous week, for a total of 55,028 since March of 2020. Statewide, total new cases were up 30-percent from a week ago.
But the daily and weekly case counts remain well below where they were in December and January, when the omicron surge was at its peak.
