La Salle County coronavirus update: Fully vaccinated residents top 2K countywide

There were 40 new COVID-19 cases among La Salle County residents Saturday and 14 individuals removed from isolation, as fully vaccinated individuals surpassed 2,000 countywide.

There have been 10,124 confirmed and probable cases since the beginning of the pandemic, and, of those, 6,974 individuals have been removed from isolation.

The La Salle County Health Department didn’t report COVID-19 numbers Sunday because of a scheduled outage of the state’s reporting system. The new cases from Sunday will be reported with the new cases Monday.

In La Salle County, 10,608 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered, an increase of 845 from the previous day’s report, with 2,151 residents (1.97% of the population) fully vaccinated against the disease (up 457). Vaccine administration figures are reported with up to a 72-hour lag.

Of 750 La Salle County residents tested Thursday, the latest data available from the Illinois Department of Public Health, 5.3% were returned positive. From Jan. 22 to 28, there has been a 4.7% positivity rate – the fourth day in the past seven with a rolling seven-day positivity rate below 5%.

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

• Streator, which also is in Livingston County, is up 23 to 1,756.
• Ottawa is up 15 to 1,976.
• Peru is up seven to 1,092.
• Sandwich, which also is in DeKalb County, is up six to 1,111.
• La Salle is up six to 958.
• Marseilles is up five to 670.
• Oglesby is up five to 420.
• Mendota up three to 1,090.
• Sheridan is up two to 601 (29 active cases at Sheridan Correctional Center; 370 total)
• Earlville up two to 212.
• Dana is up two to 23.
• Somonauk, which also is in DeKalb County, is up one to 333.
• Utica is up one to 167.
• Wenona, which also is in Marshall County, is up one to 100.
• Grand Ridge is up one to 84.
• Tonica is up one to 82.
• Seneca remains at 265.
• Leland remains at 149.
• Lostant remains at 59.
• Serena remains at 51.
• Millington, which also is in Kendall County, remains at 46.
• Ransom remains at 36.
• Rutland remains at 23.
• Cedar Point remains at 22.
• Troy Grove remains at 14.

Two men in their 90s, a man in his 80s, a woman in her 80s, a man in his 70s, two women in their 70s, four men in their 60s, a woman in her 60s, a man in his 50s, five women in their 50s, three men in their 40s, four women in their 40s, three women in their 30s, a boy in his 20s, four women in their 20s, four teenage boys, a teenage girl, a boy younger than 13, and a girl younger than 13 made up Saturday’s new cases.