Two new COVID-19 cases were announced Wednesday afternoon by the Vermilion County Health Department.
Melissa Rome, the emergency planning and response coordinator for the department, says the new cases involve one person in their 50’s and one teenager.
The statewide COVID-19 test positivity rate decreased again Wednesday to 4 percent after rising as high as 4.4 percent on August 20th.
The Illinois Department of Public Health also announced another 37 deaths related to the virus and 2,157 confirmed cases among more than 50,000 tests completed over the previous 24 hours. That made for a one-day positivity rate of 4.3 percent. The deaths ranged from a female younger than 20 to multiple residents in their 90s.
Vermilion County has 26 active cases with one person still hospitalized.
