By Blake Haas
BLOOMINGTON – With the addition of three new cases of COVID-19, the McLean County Health Department announced the county total has now surpassed 100 total cases.
“It is showing us what we already been aware of is that COVID-19 is still here,” Jessica McKnight McLean County Health Department Administrator said. “We are testing for it, and testing is increasing in our community at the (McLean County) Fairgrounds especially. We anticipate seeing more results, but 100 is just a number.”
Of the 102 cases, 12 remain in home isolation, two remain in the hospital, and 85 have recovered. There have been three deaths in the county.
“I still think that we are at that plateau portion where we are going to continue to see additional cases. As far as cases reported today, testing can take 3-5 days to get results back and so I don’t put as much stock into a day where we don’t have any new cases because it takes several days to get results back,” McKnight added.
During his daily press briefing, Gov. Pritzker announced 2,341 new cases of COIV-19 with 46 additional deaths, moving the statewide to 63,840 cases and 2,662 deaths.
Blake Haas can be reached at Blake.Haas@Cumulus.com.
