Two more COVID-19 cases were reported in Vermilion County Monday afternoon.
Vermilion County Health Department Administrator Doug Toole says the new cases involve a person in their 40’s and a person in their 20’s.
Almost half of the county’s active cases have been released from isolation, leaving the number of active coronavirus cases down to 13, with two people in the hospital and the rest in isolation. The county now has 228 total cases. The local weekly positivity rate is 2.2 percent.
The Illinois Department of Public Health announced 1,549 new cases of COVID-19 in Illinois, including 20 additional deaths.
Currently, IDPH is reporting a total of 196,948 cases and 7,657 deaths. The seven-day statewide positivity rate is 4.1%. As of Monday night, 1,459 people in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 336 patients were in the ICU and 127 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.
