La Salle County coronavirus update: Residents removed from isolation outpace new cases

Seven-day positivity rate countywide has been 3.8%

La Salle County residents removed from isolation after having COVID-19 outpaced new cases Sunday.

There were 13 new cases of COVID-19 and 66 residents removed from isolation. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 10,869 people with confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases, and of those, 8,715 have been removed from isolation.

There were 347 new doses of the COVID-19 vaccine administered Sunday to La Salle County residents, increasing the number of doses administered to 23,302 overall. With that said, 7,493 residents have been fully vaccinated, 6.85% of the county’s population.

Of the 628 La Salle County residents tested Thursday, the latest data available from the Illinois Department of Public Health, 3.8% of them were positive for COVID-19. From Feb. 19 to 25, the county has had a seven-day positivity rate of 3.8%.

The IDPH’s ZIP code data (which sometimes lags behind county numbers) of new cases since Friday’s report:

• Peru is up eight.

• Mendota is up six.

• Sheridan is up five (65 active inmate cases at Sheridan Correctional Center).

• Sandwich is up four.

• Ottawa is up three.

• La Salle is up three.

• Oglesby is up three.

• Streator is up two.

• Somonauk is up two.

• Marseilles is up one.

• Leland is up one.

• Tonica is up one.

A man in his 70s, a man in his 60s, two women in their 60s, two men in their 50s, a woman in her 50s, a man in his 30s, a woman in her 30s and four teenage girls comprise the new cases Sunday.