(This story is by Steve Brandy.)
COVID numbers continue to rise both locally and statewide. The Vermilion County Health Department reported on Friday afternoon that 112 new cases had been confirmed.
This included seventeen teens, eight grade-school-aged children, one toddler, and six infants.
Other new positive cases included one resident in their 90s, two in their 80s, eight in their 70s, eleven in their 60s, seventeen in their 50s, sixteen in their 40s, ten in their 30s, and fifteen in their 20s.
Vermilion County has now had a total of 11,393 positive COVID cases, with 163 county residents having lost their lives.
As of Friday August 27th, there are currently 30 Vermilion County residents with COVID who are hospitalized, and 297 active COVID cases in the county.
The Health Department is also aware of six Vermilion County residents who have become reinfected with COVID since June First.
Of the new 112 cases reported Friday afternoon, nine stated to county contact tracers that they had been fully vaccinated.
Meanwhile, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported Friday over 25, 600 new cases of Coronavirus statewide in just the past week, which averages out to well over 35-hundred new cases statewide per day. A handful of months ago, the state of Illinois was down to well under 500 new cases statewide per day. That, unfortunately, is now a distant memory
Due to Vermilion County’s HIGH transmission status, it is recommended that everyone, despite vaccination, should wear a mask when indoors.
The Health Department encourages the residents of Vermilion County community to get vaccinated, get tested, stay home when they are sick, and to wear face masks.
SHIELD ILLINOIS saliva COVID testing will be at the Health Department every Wednesday, please check their website at www.vchd.org, for information about our upcoming COVID vaccination clinics. Local hospitals (OSF, Carle, and the VA), pharmacies, Aunt Martha’s, and some private providers are providing COVID vaccination clinics, as well.
You can also visit the Health Department’s COVID-19 page on our website, https://vchd.org/covid-19/, for more information.
Please remember: Vaccinations save lives.
