La Salle County coronavirus update: County nears 30% of population fully-vaccinated

32,364 residents are fully-vaccinated in La Salle County

After 372 more doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered to La Salle County residents Tuesday, there have been 74,169 doses total administered.

There are 32,364 fully-vaccinated residents, which is 29.58% of the county’s population.

Additionally, there were 30 new COVID-19 cases confirmed Wednesday and 89 residents removed from isolation. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 12,632 confirmed and probable cases, and of those, 10,806 have been removed from isolation.

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

Of the 266 La Salle County residents tested Sunday, the latest data available from the Illinois Department of Public Health, there were 3.8% of those tests returned positive for the novel coronavirus. From May 3-9, the county’s seven-day positivity rate has been 4%.