La Salle County coronavirus update: New single-day high set Thursday for vaccine distribution

Roughly 1.3% of La Salle County’s population received a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, setting a new single-day high for vaccines administered countywide.

There were 1,440 vaccine doses administered Thursday, besting the previous high of 1,390 set March 30.

With Thursday’s distribution, there have been a total of 51,327 doses administered to La Salle County residents. Overall, there are 18,837 residents fully-vaccinated, which is 17.21% of the county’s population.

The La Salle County Health Department reported Friday a woman in her 70s died from complications related to COVID-19.

Her death is the 288th COVID-related death in La Salle County since the beginning of the pandemic, and the 55th of 2021 and the first this month.

There were 27 new novel coronavirus cases announced by the health department on Friday and 20 residents were removed from isolation. Since the start of the virus, there have been 11,587 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19, and of those, 9,731 have been removed from isolation.

Making up Friday’s new cases are two girls younger than 13, a teenage boy, three men in their 20s, four men in their 30s, two women in their 30s, two men in their 40s, two women in their 40s, three men in their 50s, two women in their 50s, a man in his 60s, a woman in her 60s, a man in his 70s, a woman in her 70s and two men in their 80s.

Of the 515 La Salle County residents tested Tuesday, the latest data available from the Illinois Department of Public Health, 5.2% of them were returned positive for COVID-19. From March 31 to April 6, the county’s seven-day positivity rate was 4.4% — that number is up 0.3% from the previous day.