La Salle County coronavirus update: County reaches 300 deaths since the start of pandemic

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

Her death is the 300th COVID-related death since the beginning of the pandemic and the third this month.

Additionally, La Salle County surpassed the 30,000 mark Wednesday for residents fully-vaccinated, with 30,089 residents now fully-vaccinated, which is 27.5% of the county’s population. There were 783 more COVID-19 vaccine doses administered Wednesday, increasing the total number of doses administered to 70,828.

There were 40 new confirmed COVID-19 cases Thursday and 86 residents removed from isolation. Since the start of the virus, there have been 12,487 confirmed and probable cases, and of those, 10,379 have been removed from isolation.

Making up Thursday’s new cases are a girl younger than 13, six teenage boys, five teenage girls, four men in their 20s, five women in their 20s, three men in their 30s, four women in their 30s, four women in their 40s, five men in their 50s, two women in their 50s and a man in his 60s.

Of the 612 La Salle County residents tested Monday, the latest data available from the Illinois Department of Public Health, 4.7% of those tests were positive for COVID-19. From April 27 to May 3, the county’s seven-day positivity rate was 4.7%.