Three more Vermilion County residents have died of COVID-19.
Vermilion County Health Department Administrator Doug Toole says the new deaths include women in their 70’s and 60’s and a man in his 90’s.
In addition, 88 more cases were announced on Tuesday evening. 200 more people received vaccines at the health department, mostly second doses to healthcare workers and first doses to educators.
Danville Mayor Rickey Williams Jr. said during last night’s city council meeting that the city’s police officers and firefighters have received their first doses of the vaccine and that Danville Mass Transit is working on a plan for its drivers to be vaccinated.
The new cases, broken down by age, consist of:
- Two people in their 90’s
- Two people in their 80’s
- Six people in their 70’s
- 12 people in their 60’s
- Nine people in their 50’s
- 12 people in their 40’s
- Seven people in their 30’s
- 23 people in their 20’s
- Seven teenagers
- Two grade-school-aged children
- Two preschoolers
- Three toddlers
The health department and its partner agencies have given out 4,545 doses of the vaccine to individuals, and 572 county residents are consider fully vaccinated. 227,000 state residents are considered fully vaccinated.
Vermilion County has seen a total of 7,658 cases and 94 deaths.
