Vermilion County will stay on the state’s list of counties that have an outbreak of COVID-19 cases, that according to the Vermilion County Health Department.
Administrator Doug Toole says the local test positivity rate is 12 percent and the case rate per capita is 333, both of which exceed the state thresholds of 8 percent and 50 cases per capita.
Toole also says 44 new cases were confirmed yesterday. Those consist of:
- One person in their 90’s
- Five people in their 70’s
- Four people in their 60’s
- Six people in their 50’s
- Five people in their 40’s
- Seven people in their 30’s
- Seven people in their 20’s
- Three teenagers
- Four grade-school-aged children
- One preschooler
- One toddler.
The county currently has 202 active coronavirus cases and has had a total of 1,822 cases. 25 local residents are in the hospital with COVID-19.
