Tri-County health officials on Wednesday reported four new deaths linked to COVID-19 and 139 additional cases, while the region approaches 70,000 administered doses of coronavirus vaccines.
A Tazewell County woman in her 40s is among the most recent victims, along with a Tazewell County man in his 70s and two Peoria County residents: a man in his 70s with underlying health conditions and a woman in her 80s from Lutheran Hillside.
The region’s death toll from the pandemic stands at 534, while the infection total increased to 33,022. Eight of the 35 patients in treatment for COVID-19 at Peoria-area hospitals are in intensive care units, while 1,651 Tri-County residents are isolating at home.
Updated figures on the Illinois Department of Public Health’s online database show 10,809 people in Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford counties have received a second vaccine dose and are fully vaccinated, or 3.08% of the region’s total population. With the addition of 2,206 administered doses since Tuesday, the area’s total moved to 69,964 – with a daily average of 1,971 doses administered over the past week.
Total vaccination doses administered in Illinois climbed to 1,489,079, up 62,923 from Tuesday. With 327,413 people getting their second doses, about 9.1% of the state’s population has had at least one shot.
State officials reported 2,825 new COVID-19 infections and 53 additional fatalities in the past day. Illinois’ death toll since the start of the pandemic stands at 19,739, while the case total is 1,152,995. Hospitals across the state had 2,082 coronavirus patients as of Tuesday night, with 464 in ICUs and 232 on ventilators. The statewide preliminary seven-day positivity rate remained at 4.0%.
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