La Salle County coronavirus update: 22% of residents have been fully-vaccinated

County’s seven-day positivity rate sits at 5.4%

Covid-19 vaccine syringes sit on a tray ready to be used during a vaccination event at the Schreiber Center for Human Services in Round Lake. The event was sponsored by the Lake County Health Department, Catholic Charities and the Doctors Test Centers. Every Saturday from 10-4 p.m. vaccinations will be available by appointment only. (4/10/21)

After 245 more doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were administered Monday, 22% of La Salle County residents have been fully-vaccinated.

There have been 60,074 doses total administered to county residents, and from those, 24,072 residents have been fully-vaccinated.

Additionally, there were 19 new cases announced Tuesday and 55 residents removed from isolation. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 11,908 probable and confirmed COVID-19 cases, and of those, 9,906 have been removed from isolation.

Making up the new cases are two teenage boys, a teenage girl, two men in their 20s, a woman in her 20s, three men in their 30s, four women in their 30s, a woman in her 40s, two men in their 50s, a woman in her 50s, a man in his 60s and a woman in her 70s.

Of the 1,369 La Salle County residents tested Saturday, the latest data available from the La Salle County Health Department, 1.8% of them were returned positive for COVID-19. From April 11-17, the county’s seven-day positivity rate has been 5.4%.