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Woodford County Adds COVID-19 Death; Tri-County’s Toll Unchanged

Joe Deacon
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WCBU

A Woodford County woman is the Tri-County area’s lone new fatality linked to COVID-19 in the past day.

The woman was in her 70s and a resident of Apostolic Christian Home in Eureka. Her death was announced Tuesday by Tri-County health officials.

However, the region's death toll since the start of the pandemic remained at 586 as one victim previously attributed to Peoria County was transferred to a county outside the area. Five deaths have been added in the past eight days, with no more than one each day.

The latest data indicates an addition of 66 coronavirus infections in the region since Monday, bringing the Tri-County’s case count to 34,668. Twenty-one COVID patients are in Peoria-area hospitals, including five in intensive care units.

Meanwhile, the Illinois Department of Public Health’s online database has the Tri-County’s combined total for COVID-19 vaccinations at 132,421--an increase of 1,897 from the previous day. The number of fully vaccinated residents climbed to 49,753, which represents 14.16% of the region’s population.

Statewide, Illinois has administered nearly 3.5 million doses, with 1.2 million of those being booster shots. That means nearly 9.4% of residents are fully vaccinated and 17.8% have gotten at least one shot.

IDPH reported 1,510 new COVID-19 cases and 16 more deaths since Monday, bringing Illinois’ totals to 1.2 million infections and 20,781 in nearly one full year.

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Joe Deacon is a reporter at WCBU.