The Chicago Department of Public Health did not add or remove any states or territories from its COVID-19 Travel Advisory on Feb. 8.
This means that, for the sixth consecutive week, all U.S. states and four territories are on the advisory.
For any state or territory to be removed from the travel advisory, it must have a daily COVID-19 case rate of under 15 per 100,000 residents for two consecutive weeks. Although daily COVID-19 case rates have fallen steeply all over the country in the past few weeks, no state or territory has yet reached the sub-15 cases per 100,000 residents threshold.
For the first time this year, the U.S. average daily case rate is below 100 per 100,000 residents, at 87.8. Illinois' daily case rate currently is 68.1—a more than 51-percent drop from last week, when it was 139.6. Chicago's daily case rate, 21.2, is more than 87 percent lower than it was four weeks ago (169.7 on Jan. 4).
