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PEORIA – COVID-19 cases are once again on the rise in the Tri-County Area, a fact which health officials attribute to the increasing prevalence of the more infectious Delta variant and low vaccination numbers in the Peoria area.
“Our positivity rate has doubled in the past 2 weeks, and our ZIP codes which have the lowest vaccination rates continue to have the highest number of cases,” said Monica Hendrickson, administrator for the Peoria City County Health Department. “On July 1, our seven-day average was one new case per day. Today we are back up to double digits; we are reporting an average of 10 new cases each day.”
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PEORIA, Ill. The Peoria City/County Health Department Thursday held a news briefing on COVID-19 in the tri-county area for the first time since ending the regular meetings.
Among the topics of conversation were
back-to-school plans and the Delta variant of the virus.
Reditus Labs Wednesday reported a “significant increase” in Delta variant cases across Central Illinois.
Although the variant has been proven to be more transmissible between people, Dr. Douglas Kasper with the University of Illinois College of Medicine said vaccines remain effective.
“In areas where vaccination rate has not peaked at its potential highest number, the case rates of COVID-19 are re-emerging,” said Kasper. “This has to do with a Delta variant strain with increased transmission, especially in any person of any age who is not vaccinated.”
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PEORIA – The COVID-19 variant causing so many problems in India has arrived in central Illinois.
Reditus Laboraties in Pekin recently identified the Indian double mutant variant in a sample from a Bloomington resident, according to a press release issued by Reditus Tuesday afternoon.
First identified in India, the variant carries 13 mutations and preliminary evidence indicates it is potentially more contagious than previous strains of the virus. The variant has been found in several countries and was first confirmed in the United States on April 3, according to Reditus Laboratories.
So far studies have suggested that the current vaccines offers protection against the Indian variant. Dr. Douglas Kasper, section head of infectious disease at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria, said he is most concerned by the fact that not enough people in central Illinois have been vaccinated, because the vaccines have been working very well against the variants.