PEORIA, Ill. — 1,043 Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford County residents found out between Friday and Monday they tested positive for COVID-19.
Tazewell was hit the hardest, with 471 new cases and five deaths.
A male and female who lived at Washington Senior Living, both in their 90s, succumbed to the virus. A woman in her 60s who lived at Generations at Riverview died, as did a male resident of Apostolic Christian Restmor in his 80s and a woman in her 80s who was not known to have been a resident of a long-term care facility.
Peoria had 464 cases and three new deaths. A woman in her 80s who lived at Heritage Health in Chillicothe passed away from complications related to the virus, as did a male in his 80s and a woman in her 60s, neither of whom lived in long-term care.
Woodford accounted for the remaining 108 cases.
189 people as of Monday afternoon were in area hospital beds because of the virus. 43 of them were in intensive care.
The tri-county recovery rate was 69.62%.
Region Two’s rolling seven-day positivity rate was down yet again. Monday’s number was 14.7%, marking the sixth straight day of a decrease in that metric.
