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La Salle County coronavirus update: Ottawa hit with 27 new cases; Mendota’s running total reaches 1,000

0.72% of population fully vaccinated against the disease

By J.T. Pedelty

A nurse conducts a COVID-19 test at the Convocation Center in DeKalb on Jan. 12. (David Toney for Shaw Local)

A man in his 90s is La Salle County’s 248th death related to the novel coronavirus, the La Salle County Health Department reported Thursday, while there were 85 newly reported cases and 111 individuals previously reported to have had cases removed from isolation.

The total of confirmed and probable cases in La Salle County reached 9,329, while the recovery count reached 6,368. There are 2,713 known, active cases in the county.

In La Salle County, 4,109 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered, an increase of 312 from the previous day’s data, with 788 residents (0.72% of the population) fully vaccinated against the disease. Vaccine distribution figures are reported in real time, while vaccine administration figures are reported with as much as a 72-hour lag.

Of 664 La Salle County residents tested last Monday, the latest data available from the Illinois Department of Public Health, 7.1% tested positive for the virus, an increase of 2.1% from the previous day. From Jan. 5 to 11, 7.6% of county residents tested proved positive for COVID-19.

The IDPH’s ZIP code data (which sometimes lag behind county numbers) of total cases since the start of the pandemic, with increases since Wednesday’s report, show:

  • Ottawa up 27 to 1,798
  • Streator, which also is in Livingston County, up 18 to 1,503
  • Sheridan up 18 to 552, 329 of those inmates at Sheridan Correctional Center pending Thursday evening’s statistics
  • Sandwich’s 60548 ZIP, which also is in DeKalb County, up 11 to 993
  • Mendota up 10 to an even 1,000
  • Peru up eight to 1,026
  • La Salle up five to 917
  • Marseilles up four to 629
  • Somonauk, which also is in DeKalb County, up four to 295
  • Earlville up three to 197
  • Seneca up one to 248
  • Leland up one to 142
  • Tonica up one to 77
  • Grand Ridge up one to 74
  • Serena up one to 48
  • Utica steady at 150
  • Wenona, which is mostly in Marshall County, steady at 85
  • Lostant steady at 55
  • Millington, which also is in Kendall County, steady at 44
  • Ransom steady at 30
  • Cedar Point steady at 22
  • Rutland steady at 20
  • Dana steady at 18
  • Troy Grove steady at 13
  • Oglesby, with one case removed from its ZIP, down to 396

Two women and a man in their 90s, three women in their 80s, four women and four men in their 70s, four women and five men in their 60s, seven women and one man in their 50s, seven women and seven men in their 40s, five women and five men in their 30s, 11 women and eight men in their 20s, eight girls and one boy in their teens, and two girls under the age of 13 made up Thursday’s new cases.