The Vermilion County Health Department is reporting three new cases of COVID-19 coronavirus have been confirmed locally. County Health Department Administrator Douglas Toole said today (May 4, 2020) all three were confirmed by lab tests. He says two of the new cases are people in their thirties, while the other is a person in their fifties.
It raises to 22 the total number of people who have been diagnosed with the disease in Vermilion County since counting began. There has also been one death from COVID-19 in Vermilion County (which was reported last week).
As of Sunday afternoon, (May 3, 2020), Governor J.B. Pritzer reported there have been 2,618 fatalities associated with COVID-19 in Illinois since the pandemic began. The Governor also announced that in the 24 hour period leading up to Sunday afternoon’s news conference more than 19,400 tests for COVID-19 had been performed in the state. Of those tested, there were nearly 3,000 positive cases added to the state’s total of nearly 61,500.
‘’Among the people we tested, how many tested positive? That is a number that ought to go down for us,’’ said Pritzker. ‘’That’s varied between 21 and 15-percent.’’ We want it to go down even further. It’s an indication that there is a lower infection rate across the state,’’ added the governor.
Of the 63 fatalities that Illinois Public Health officials announced Sunday had occurred in the state over the previous 24 hours – most of the deaths were in Cook County (the Chicago area). And the majority of fatalities reported Sunday were people 70 or older.
