A situation that could have been much worse is starting to appear like there will a positive conclusion.
Tests from 37 residents and staff at Liberty Village continue to trickle back and so far, the news has been positive, as there are no cases of coronavirus in the DeWitt County facility after a staffer tested positive last week for the virus that continues to claim lives of Illinoisans and Americans.
Dave Remmert is the DeWitt/Piatt Bi-County Health Department and today (Tuesday) told Regional Radio News he is optimistic the news will conclude positively at the assisted living facility in Clinton, something not a lot of facilities in Illinois can say at this time.
Many have wondered why only a part of the staff and residents of the facility have been tested. Remmert indicates the answer is simply a contact tracing procedure as most of the residents have been quarantined in their rooms since the coronavirus outbreak began.
While the situation at the assisted living facility is looking more positive by the day, Remmert expressed his concern for the lack of isolation is followed by one of the individuals who recently tested positive for the virus. Remmert called the situation frustrating.
While Remmert has advocated for young people to return to work and to resume their daily routines, he says for healthy individuals to be out is one thing but for a sick individual to be out is quite another. He stresses the danger of individuals who are sick being out is going to create a problem.
Remmert indicates they are going to have to retest around half-a-dozen individuals. Piatt County is reporting no new cases of coronavirus Tuesday while in Logan County, they have no new cases but remain with three active cases.
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today announced 2,122 new cases of coronavirus in Illinois, including 176 new fatalities. 90-percent of cases are in the Chicago area.
Currently, IDPH is reporting a total of 65,962 cases, including 2,838 deaths, in 97 counties in Illinois.
Within the past 24 hours, laboratories have processed 13,139 specimens for a total of 346,286.
