When the Governor created the Restore Illinois plan the entire state was broken up into four large regions. Wednesday JB Pritzker announced that the state will now be split into 11 parts that follow EMS regions that have normally guided the Illinois Department of Public Health.

Metrics in those regions will used to determine if an area needs additional mitigation to control the spread of COVID-19.

To roll an area back to more restrictive measures there needs to be a sustained increase in the seven day rolling average of the positivity rate along with the sustained seven day increase in hospital admissions for a COIVD like illness, a reduction in hospital capacity that threatens surge capabilities or three consecutive days of testing show a greater than eight percent positivity rate.