MCHD reports 3 new coronavirus cases; Mobile COVID testing in LeRoy

Posted on September 30, 2020
A mobile COVID-19 testing site will be in LeRoy Thursday from 9 a.m. until noon. (Facebook/McLean County Health Department)

 

By Neil Doyle

BLOOMINGTON – The McLean County Health Department Wednesday reported three new cases of COVID-19.

Five additional people were released from isolation. (Graphic courtesy McLean County Health Department)

There are 185 active cases, nine people remain in the hospital, one in intensive care, and the rest are isolating at home.

The county’s rolling positivity rate is 2.4% as it has continued to drop over the last three weeks.

“We are slowing decreasing that as we had been as high as 12%,” MCHD Administrator Jessica McKnight told WJBC’s Craig Collins.

There are 3,093 people that have recovered from the virus and there have been 23 COVID-related deaths.

Meanwhile, MCHD and Chestnut Health Systems will be in LeRoy on Thursday from 9 a.m. until noon for mobile COVID testing. The drive-through and walk-up testing will be available at 201 North Chestnut Street.

Neil Doyle can be reached at [email protected]

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