Three residents of a nursing home are part of nine new COVID-19 cases in Vermilion County announced Wednesday afternoon.
Vermilion County Health Department Administrator Doug Toole says the facility transfers its affected patients to a temporary facility in Chicago that is dedicated to treating affected virus patients until they recover.
Wednesday’s new cases are:
- Two people in their 70’s
- Two people in their 60’s
- One person in their 50’s
- One person in their 40’s
- One person in their 30’s
- One person in their 20’s
- One grade-school-aged child
The Illinois Department of Public Health announced 1,759 new confirmed cases of coronavirus in Illinois, including 30 additional confirmed deaths.
Currently, IDPH is reporting a total of 186,471 cases and 7,573 deaths, in 102 counties in Illinois.The preliminary seven-day statewide case positivity rate is 3.9%. As of Tuesday night, 1,552 people in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 368 patients were in the ICU and 129 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.
