4/12/20 COVID-19 pandemic recap

Noah Maldonado, News Editor

In Illinois, there are 20,852 confirmed cases of COVID-19 per the Illinois Department of Health. There are 1,228 cases in Will County and 105 cases in Kendall County. Approximately 100,735 people have been tested for the virus within the state and 720 have died from the virus.
Nationwide, there are over 550,016 cases of COVID-19. 21,991 have died from the virus and 31,986 have recovered from it.
Globally, there are 1,840,093 cases of COVID-19. As of now, among the countries impacted, Italy is at 166,127 cases; Iran is at 71,686 cases; Spain is at 166,127 cases; Germany is at 127,459 cases; and France is at 133,669 cases. 113,672 have died, and over 421,372 have recovered so far.