PEORIA, Ill. — The Tri-County area has 214 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
Peoria County has 142 confirmed cases, Tazewell has 57, and Woodford has 15, according to Health Administrator Monica Hendrickson.
A total of 66% of the Tri-County cases have recovered, while 23% are at home self isolating, and 6% are in the hospital.
“In terms of our case count, our 14 and seven day averages remain stable. We don’t see any necessarily any growth nor any decline, ” Hendrickson said.
The Tri-County region remains around 7 cases per seven to 14 days.
Beth Crider, Regional Superintendent of Schools, said there is no definite plan to bring students back to the classroom in the fall.
Crider said officials meet on a regular basis via Zoom, and will work through three scenarios. The first scenario being if by fall Illinois is still under a stay at home order.
“This will trigger the need to continue to utilize remote learning as we’ve been doing. However, schools can already take the plans they have already made this year, tweak with all the lessons we have learned by the implementation this spring and improve the plan,” Crider said.
Scenario two is if social distancing must still be practiced by the fall.
“There are different ways that we can mitigate the spread, and it’s not just trying to keep children apart,” Crider said.
The third scenario is if school can return during phase five of Gov. J.B Pritzker’s reopening plan.
“This option believe it or not also needs a quality plan. Children have been out of a school building and remote learning by that time for almost six months,” Crider said. “We need to be able to re-acclimate back to in person learning. ”
