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Tri-County Area Adds 1 COVID-19 Death, Tops 60K Vaccinations

Tim Shelley / Peoria Public Radio

More than 15% of the Tri-County population has received the COVID-19 vaccine and 2.5% is fully vaccinated, according to the latest figures from the Illinois Department of Public Health.

Tri-County health officials on Friday reported one new death linked to the pandemic and 129 additional coronavirus infections. That brings the region’s case count since mid-March to 32,531 with 524 lives lost--but just eight fatalities in the past week. A Peoria County man in his 60s from University Rehab is the latest victim.

According to the IDPH online database, Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford counties have administered 61,770 vaccine doses with 8,768 residents receiving their second dose. On average, the region administered about 2,800 doses over the past seven days.

Statewide, 1,231,418 doses have been injected and 272,444 people are fully vaccinated (2.14% of the population). Illinois added 3,660 new COVID cases and 83 more deaths since Thursday, bringing the totals since the start of the pandemic to 1,141,219 infections and 19,526 fatalities.

The number of COVID patients in Peoria-area hospitals is down to 37, including 11 people in intensive care units. With 1,952 people isolating at home, active cases are down 285 from last Friday.

Hospitals across Illinois have 2,318 patients infected with the coronavirus, with 491 in ICUs and 254 on ventilators. The state’s preliminary seven-day positivity rate ticked down to 4.3%.

COVID-19 in Tri-County

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Joe Deacon is a reporter at WCBU.