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KOMU 8 News has compiled a list of where some mid-Missouri counties are in the vaccination process.

'Keeping our businesses closed isn't working': Hard-hit restaurants hope for ban thaw FacebookTwitterEmail People walk by outdoor plastic dining bubbles and restaurants that were prohibited from indoor service tried to attract customers as temperatures turned colder.Nam Y. Huh | AP For the first time since COVID-19 mitigation efforts began in mid-March, two Illinois regions have reached the final tier and will be able to loosen restrictions to allow such things as the reopening of bars and restaurants. Guidelines on hours and occupancy will remain in place under the Restore Illinois plan. For...

Illinois will allow indoor dining in Tier 1, but no regions there yet Jerry Nowicki Capitol News Illinois Jan. 15, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday announced revisions to his COVID-19 mitigation tiers that would allow earlier indoor dining, but no regions have thus far met the requirements. He also announced that the whole state would move to Phase 1B of vaccination efforts as of Jan. 25, while some counties might already individually have entered that phase. As well, a new, more contagious strain of the coronavirus has been confirmed to be spreading in I...

The Governor’s office held an informational meeting on the state's plans for Phase 1B Thursday afternoon, Jan. 14.

SPRINGFIELD — The coronavirus region that includes McLean County is among those moving to Tier 2 mitigations, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Friday, but that doesn’t mean that some restrictions from Tier 3 won’t carry over into the coming weeks. Region 2 — which includes McLean, Peoria, Woodford, Tazewell, LaSalle and Livingston counties — is among those who met the criteria for the rollback, defined by the Illinois Department of Public Health as having experienced “less than 12% test positivity rate for three consecutive days and greater than 20% available intensi...