PEORIA, Ill. — A female resident of Peoria County in her 90s is the tri-county’s latest casualty of the coronavirus.
She lived at Lutheran Hillside.
Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford in total had 75 people between Wednesday and Thursday test positive.
31 of those positive tests were within Peoria, 28 were Tazewell residents, and the other 16 live in Woodford.
Four fewer hospital beds were being used by COVID patients as of Thursday afternoon than were in use on Wednesday, a change from 35 to 31.
Nine of the 31 were in intensive care.
Region Two metrics from Wednesday to Thursday didn’t change greatly.
The rolling seven-day positivity rate fell from 3.8% to 3.7%. Neither ICU bed availability nor the amount of COVID patients in hospitals changed at all.
