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%.