PEORIA, Ill. — No COVID-19 tests came back positive between Tuesday and Wednesday, said Monica Hendrickson with the Peoria City/County Health Department.
“Total number of confirmed is still four, for the Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford region,” Hendrickson said. “Total number of negative tests is 18, and the total number of pending tests is 15.”
Hendrickson called it “a really difficult time,” thanking people for continuing to question how their own health has been impacted.
Hendrickson encouraged thinking of the crisis as not a matter of if individuals have been exposed to the coronavirus, but rather thinking of the crisis as a matter of all individuals having, indeed, been exposed.
“This is a huge transition in our mindset as a community,” Hendrickson said. “Based on that understanding, low-risk or the general public should be following the same criteria. That’s social distancing, self-monitoring even at home, understanding that if you are sick you should stay home.”
Hendrickson said this is not to cause hysteria, but to heighten awareness of how the virus is transmitted.
It was announced Peoria Public Schools served 3,000 sack lunches in its first day of the program that offers meals to students while school is off according to Beth Crider with the Peoria County Regional Office of Education.
“In Peoria Public Schools alone, meals were delivered at several different sites, the schools hosted it, and the Salvation Army helped deliver meals to the kids that couldn’t make it to those sites,” Crider said. “We’re hearing more and more about other door-to-door deliveries that are needed, and we are working hard to meet that need as well.”
