La Salle County coronavirus update: 58 new cases, one death reported Saturday

The La Salle County Health Department announced 58 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday along with one additional death of a male in his 60s and 36 recoveries.

Since March, the county has had 9,450 COVID-19 cases, 249 COVID-19 related deaths and 6,430 COVID-19 recoveries.

In La Salle County, 4,49 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered, an increase of 189 from the previous day’s data. The number of county residents fully vaccinated remained at 795 (0.73 percent of the population). Vaccine distribution figures are reported in real time, while vaccine administration figures are reported with as much as a 72-hour lag.

Of 1,486 residents tested Wednesday, the latest data available from the Illinois Department of Public Health, 9.2 percent tested positive, an increase of 3.6 percent from the previous day. From Jan. 7-13, 7.7 percent of county residents tested were 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 Friday’s report, show:

• Streator, which also is in Livingston County, up 22 to 1,543
• Ottawa up eight to 1,820
• Sandwich’s 60548 ZIP, which also is in DeKalb County, up 13 to 1,014
• Mendota up four to 1,010
• La Salle remains at 922
• Marseilles up three to 636
• Somonauk, which also is in DeKalb County, remains at 299
• Grand Ridge remains at 78
• Peru up eight to 1,035
• Seneca up one to 250
• Earlville remains at 198
• Leland up one to 144
• Sheridan up two to 554
• Oglesby one to 397
• Utica remains at 150
• Wenona, which is mostly in Marshall County, remains at 85
• Tonica steady at 77
• Lostant steady at 55
• Serena up one to 49
• Millington, which also is in Kendall County, steady at 44
• Ransom up two to 32
• Cedar Point steady at 22
• Rutland steady at 20
• Dana steady at 18
• Troy Grove steady at 13

Three males under 13, four females under 13, a male teen, a female teen, four males in their 20s, three females in their 20s, five males in their 30s, five females in their 30s, six males in their 40s, seven females in their 40s, five males in their 50s, two females in their 50s, two males in their 60s, three females in their 60s, three males in their 70s, two females in their 70s, a male in his 80s and a female in her 90s made up Saturday’s new cases.