By Web Desk
Dec 23, 2020 11:52 PM
MARTINSVILLE, Ill. (WTWO/WAWV) - As COVID-19 vaccinations continue across the country, residents and employees of a local senior living facility in Illinois received their first doses of the vaccine.
The Clark County Health Department partnered with the Villas of Holly Brook in Marshall to ensure residents and staff were vaccinated. The vaccination took place at the Health Department on Wednesday in Martinsville as part of the government s pharmacy partnership for long-term care program.
Illinois long-term care residents and employees will have access to the vaccine over the upcoming weeks. Care workers at Villas of Holly Brook say they are happy to have this extra layer of protection.
The first COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Athens on Friday and by Monday, health care workers were still administering the vaccines to employees in Athens two major hospitals.
“We are starting our vaccines this afternoon. We are expecting the shipment to arrive any minute now,” St. Mary’s Hospital spokesman Mark Ralston said about noon Monday. “We are getting a limited supply, so initially, it will be those top-priority folks who are the front-line clinicians and see the largest number of COVID-19 patients.
Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center has received nearly 500 vaccines, which are being used for personnel who have direct or indirect contact with COVID-19 patients, according to the hospital
222 New Cases, Seven More Area COVID Deaths Monday
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The Pike County Health Department reported 25 new coronavirus cases and one new death, a female in her 80s.
The Pike County case total is now 1,278, with 113 active, 17 hospitalized and 34 deaths.
Officials in Hancock County reported 23 new COVID cases Monday, along with one additional death.
The Hancock County case total is now 1,240, with 279 isolated, seven hospitalized and 26 deaths.
In Brown County, there have been 13 new coronavirus cases since Friday, bringing their total to 416, with 71 active, two hospitalized and six deaths.
Health department officials in northeast Missouri reported 97 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and five additional deaths Monday.
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