Top Regional News: COVID complications kill in 18 Peoria area over Christmas weekend
Illinois News Desk
COVID complications kill in 18 Peoria area over Christmas weekend
PEORIA – Eighteen Peoria area people died over the Christmas holiday weekend due to complications after being infected with the novel coronavirus.
Public health officials announced that nine people from Peoria County and nine people from Tazewell County died between Dec. 24 and Monday. That brings the Tri-County death toll to 385 since the pandemic began; since Dec. 1, 128 people have died.
Within Peoria County, there were five men and four women who died. All but one were older than 60. The one man who in his 20s had prior health conditions that could have contributed to his death, public health officials said. In Peoria County, three were residents of Sharon Elms and one was a resident of Sharon Willows.