COVID-19

Active COVID-19 cases in the Tri-County are down by almost 300 from this month’s high mark, holding steady in the 950-1,100 range over the past two weeks.

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.