La Salle County coronavirus update: Man in his 60s dies from complications related to COVID-19

La Salle County reaches 7% mark for fully vaccinated residents

A La Salle County man in his 60s died from complications related to COVID-19.

His death is the 279th COVID-19-related death in La Salle County since the beginning of the pandemic and the 48th in 2021.

There were 14 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday and 26 residents removed from isolation. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 10,897 individuals with confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19, and of them, 8,751 have been removed from isolation.

La Salle County surpassed the 7% mark Monday for the percentage of citizens who have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19. There were 337 doses of the vaccine administered Monday, totaling 23,931 doses overall. There have been 7,759 residents fully vaccinated.

Of 1,203 La Salle County residents tested Saturday, the latest data available from the Illinois Department of Public Health, 2% of them were positive for COVID-19. From Feb. 21-27, the seven-day positivity rate has been 2.7%.

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

• Ottawa is up 10.

• Peru is up seven.

• La Salle is up five.

• Sandwich is up two.

• Streator is up one.

• Marseilles is up one.

• Sheridan is up one (57 active inmate cases at Sheridan Correctional Center).

• Somonauk is up one.

• Tonica is up one.

Four men in their 30s, two women in their 30s, a man in his 20s, two women in their 20s, a teenage boy, a teenage girl, two boys younger than 13 and a girl younger than 13 comprise Tuesday’s new cases.