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For the second time in less than a week, a Peoria County resident in their 20s has died from COVID-19 complications.
The woman with underlying health conditions is one of 12 new deaths linked to the coronavirus since Friday, as reported Monday by Tri-County health officials. The death of a man in his 20s was reported Thursday. The region’s death toll since the start of the pandemic is now 316.
The latest fatalities included five from Peoria County, four of whom had underlying health conditions, while the fifth was a man in his 60s from the University Rehab Center.