COVID-19

The percentage of adolescents and youths among active COVID-19 cases in the Tri-County surged more than 8% in the past week, as the region’s daily average for new cases climbed back above 100.

The number of total COVID-19 cases in the Tri-County climbed by more than 1,500 in the past two weeks, with 297 new infections added since Friday.

The Tri-County area is averaging fewer than 100 new COVID-19 cases a day for the first time in more than two weeks.

Peoria-area hospitals added 11 patients with COVID-19 since the start of last week, but active cases in the Tri-County region fell by nearly 300 over the Labor Day weekend.

The community-based COVID-19 testing site at the Peoria Civic Center will reopen Friday after more than two months.

Active COVID-19 cases in the Tri-County are at their highest number since the end of April.

St. Jude Catholic School in Peoria is closed for the next two weeks following a COVID-19 outbreak.

Central Illinois native Dr. Aaron Rossi founded Reditus Laboratories in 2019. The lab is expanding as it ramps up COVID-19 testing.

Hospitalizations for COVID-19 in the Tri-County dropped slightly this weekend, but an increase of nearly 200 active cases over the past week has the area on the verge of topping 1,000.

A capacity crowd packed into the Illinois State Board of Education room on Wednesday as many more stood outside the building to protest the state’s new indoor mask mandate in all public and nonpublic schools.

Parents, neighbors, teachers and police officers cheered on students of Franklin Primary School as they entered the building on Wednesday.

The entire Tri-County area now has the “high” community transmission designation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the region approaches 750 active COVID-19 cases.