As of January 2021, Illinois has the fifth highest number of confirmed cases in the United States. This crisis has spurred calls for Governor Pritzker to respond to the pandemic more aggressively. Дuring December 2020, Illinois experienced the second highest number of deaths per week, ranking fifth per capita. At first declared between the dates of March 21 and April 7, the order was later extended until April 30, then May 29. As the virus spread further, the state enacted an even stronger shelter in place order, affecting schools and businesses across the state. The state took measures to halt the spread of the disease by closing all schools and colleges, ordering a stop to eviction enforcements, ordering all bars and restaurants closed to sit-in diners, and otherwise restricting large gatherings of people. Pritzker issued a disaster proclamation, the state's equivalent of a state of emergency, to respond to the crisis. In mid-March, as the number of known cases rose into the double digits, Governor J. Community transmission was not suspected until March 8, when a case with no connection to other cases or recent travel was confirmed. The woman's husband was diagnosed with the disease a few days later, the first known case of human-to-human transmission in the United States. This was the second case of COVID-19 in the United States during the pandemic. state of Illinois on January 24, 2020, when a woman in Chicago, who had just returned from the pandemic's place of origin in Wuhan, Hubei, China, tested positive for the virus. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic began in the U.S.

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