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Staff, Residents of Liberty Village Tested for Coronavirus; Health Officials Keeping An Eye on the Situation

No new coronavirus cases were reported today in DeWitt, Piatt, and Logan Counties but because of recent positive cases in DeWitt County, staff and residents at a DeWitt County assisted living facility have all been tested. 

 

Testing in DeWitt and Piatt Counties increased to 424 tests conducted, 37 tests in DeWitt County are awaiting results, those tests are the staff and residents of Liberty in Village. The DeWitt/Piatt Bi-County Health Department indicates they continue to maintain communication with the staff there and are very concerned about the health and safety of their residents.

 

In a statement Friday, Executive Director of the Health Department, Dave Remmert said quote - "The Governor's message today focused on the issue of Contact Tracing.  Historically, this is one of the key elements of public health practice to reduce the spread of infections in populations.  With other agency services suspended currently, we have staff available to focus on these really critical functions.  This involves working with identified cases and getting feedback from them on any other persons that they may have had contact with for an extended period and within a 6-foot distance over the incubation period for the disease.  As you can imagine, these contacts could be extensive numbers.  Once identified, we remain in daily contact with them over their quarantine period.  This also involves identifying any needs they may have that we can work towards to allow them to stay home, e.g., groceries."

 

Remmert is imploring the public to remain patient and vigilant with the stay at home guidelines. He says while the orders have been extended, they are being relaxed a bit further and over time it is expected they will be relaxed even more. 

 

Logan County testing increased to 317 tests with three awaiting results. The Health Department still reports three active cases with four previous individuals to test positive have recovered. 

 

The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today announced 3,137 new cases of coronavirus in Illinois, including 105 additional deaths.

 

IDPH is reporting a total of 56,055 cases, including 2,457 deaths, in 97 counties in Illinois. 

 

Within the past 24 hours, laboratories have processed 14,821 specimens for a total of 284,688.

 

90-percent of cases are in the Chicago area. 

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