Belleville’s Four Fountains reaches 102 possible coronavirus patients due to outbreak
In the St. Clair County Health Department’s daily update Sunday, it reported that 102 people connected to Four Fountains in Belleville had either tested positive for COVID-19 or had symptoms since a coronavirus outbreak started there.
Sixteen people from Four Fountains have died, according to health officials.
The totals could include residents or employees. Unlike other coronavirus data, the numbers out of long-term care facilities like Four Fountains include both people who have tested positive and people who have COVID-19 symptoms.
“In facilities where cases already exist, residents who display symptoms are to be treated as if positive, but staff are to be tested to determine who can care for residents and who should be isolated,” the Illinois Department of Public Health states on its website.
Here is the information the St. Clair County Health Department provided Sunday during the 3:30 p.m. live stream by the St. Clair County Emergency Management Agency on Facebook about the number of people known or suspected to have COVID-19, either because of a test result or their symptoms:
- Four Fountains in Belleville - 102 people, including 16 deaths
- Memorial Care Center in Belleville - 43 people, including five deaths
- Lebanon Care Center - 37 people, including seven deaths
- BRIA of Belleville - 23 people, including two deaths
- BRIA of Cahokia - Seven people
- St. Paul’s Home in Belleville - Six people, including one death
- Caritas Family Solutions in Belleville - Six people
- Help at Home in O’Fallon - Five people
- TDL, Inc. in Belleville - Four people
- Colonnade in O’Fallon - Three people
Return to bnd.com for information from the health department’s 3:30 p.m. update Monday.
