La Salle County coronavirus update: Woman in her 80s dies from complications related to COVID-19

Residents removed from isolation outpaces new cases Thursday

IDPH (Illinois Department Public Health) contractor Josie Alfaro of Rockford instructs people on how to self administer the COVID-19 test at the mobile pop-up testing site at DeKalb High School on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021 in DeKalb.

A La Salle county woman in her 80s died from complications related to COVID-19.

Her death is the 282nd in La Salle County since the beginning of the pandemic and the 51st in 2021.

There were 22 new cases announced Thursday and 66 people were removed from isolation. Since the start of the virus, there have been 10,939 confirmed and probable cases, and of those, 8,860 have been removed from isolation.

On Wednesday, 515 doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered to La Salle County residents. There have been 25,238 doses administered total and 8,557 residents are fully-vaccinated, which is 7.82% of the county’s population.

Of the 715 La Salle County residents tested Monday, the latest data available from the Illinois Department of Public Health, 3.6% of them were positive for COVID-19. From Feb. 23 to March 1, the seven-day positivity rate has been 3.1%.

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

  • Peru is up eight.
  • Ottawa is up four.
  • Sheridan is up four.
  • La Salle is up four.

A man in his 60s, three men in their 50s, two women in their 50s, two men in their 40s, two women in their 40s, seven men in their 30s, four men in their 20s, and a teenage boy make up Thursday’s cases.