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State health officials announce Tier 3 COVID-19 mitigation to take effect statewide on Friday

The fall surge of COVID-19 cases shows no sign of slowing down, so Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) announced on Tuesday, Nov. 17, that additional COVID-19 resurgence mitigations will take effect statewide Friday at 12:01 a.m.

Tier 3 mitigations build on the Resurgence Mitigation Plan released in July to suppress the spread of the virus and prevent hospitals from becoming overrun. 

This latest round of mitigations aims to limit…

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