Three Woodford County residents have been announced as the Tri-County area’s latest COVID-19 victims, while the number of people from the region who have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine has topped 60,000.
Figures from the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) updated Thursday show 72,137 total doses administered in Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford counties, with 11,609 people fully vaccinated with their second dose. The 60,528 recipients represent 17.2% of the region’s population. With 2,173 new doses administered in the past day, the three counties have averaged 1,899 daily injections over the past week.
The three Woodford County COVID victims were a man in his 50s, one woman in her 80s, and a woman in her 90s from Eureka’s Apostolic Christian Home. The Tri-County’s death toll since the start of the pandemic stands at 537, while the case count is up to 33,097 with 75 illnesses added since Wednesday.
Peoria-area hospitals reported 37 patients with COVID-19 with 11 of them in intensive care units; 1,655 area residents are isolating at home.
Statewide, IDPH announced 2,838 new coronavirus illnesses and 102 additional fatalities since Wednesday. Those figures bring the state’s pandemic totals to 1,155,883 cases and 19,841 deaths. Statewide hospitalizations fell below 2,000, while the preliminary seven-day positivity rate ticked down to 3.9%.
Across Illinois, 1,549,108 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered, and 346,773 residents are fully vaccinated, which is 2.72% of the population.
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