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Nearly one quarter of Kendall County residents now fully vaccinated for COVID-19

By John Etheredge
FILE PHOTO: Vaccine stations filled the gymnasium at Yorkville High School Feb. 7, for the second day of a mass vaccination event led by the Kendall County Health Department.

FILE PHOTO: Vaccine stations filled the gymnasium at Yorkville High School Feb. 7, for the second day of a mass vaccination event led by the Kendall County Health Department. (Shea Lazansky)

Just under one quarter of all Kendall County residents have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 as of Monday, April 19, according to the Kendall County Health Department.

In a statement, the health department announced that 31,129 of the county’s 127,915 residents, 24.34%, have completed their vaccinations for the virus.

Monday’s vaccination total shows a steady increase in the number of county residents to be fully vaccinated over the past week.

On April 8, the health department reported that 23,970 county residents, 18.74%, were fully vaccinated.

The health department has launched a COVID-19 1st Dose Vaccine Appointment Portal and a COVID-19 2nd Dose Vaccine Appointment Portal on the department’s website for country residents or those who work in the county to register for the vaccine.

The county’s vaccination rate of 24.34% is below the statewide rate of 26.41% reported April 19, by the Illinois Department of Public Health. However, the county’s vaccination rate remains above the vaccination rates in neighboring Kane County, 23.17%; DeKalb County, 20.59%; LaSalle County, 21.87%; and Will County at 22.81%. Both Grundy County, with a vaccination rate of 25.01%, and DuPage County at 28.89% have higher vaccination rates than Kendall County, the IDPH data shows.

As of April 15, the health department reported that there has been a total of 12,666 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among county residents since the pandemic began last March and 90 county residents have died from the virus. The most recent deaths were reported March 10 when the health department announced that two women in their 70s had died from the virus.

In a related matter, the IDPH reported 1,959 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 22 additional deaths Monday across the state and a total of 8,119,867 COVID-19 vaccines had been administered.

Monday marked the first time there were fewer than 2,000 new virus cases announced by the IDPH in a single day since March 29.

The seven-day rolling average of Illinois’ positivity rate stayed flat at 4.0%. The state received the results of 47,506 COVID-19 tests in the 24 hours leading up to Monday afternoon.

Illinois has seen 1,304,200 total cases of the virus, and 21,685 people have died. The state has conducted a total of 21,776,820 tests since the start of the pandemic.

As of late Sunday, the state had 2,128 COVID-19 patients in the hospital. Of those, 491 were in intensive care units, and 227 were on ventilators.