The Vermilion County Health Department reports 45 cases of COVID-19 have now been confirmed in the county this year. Thirty-six of those diagnosed with the virus have been released from isolation. Seven are on home isolation and 1 is hospitalized, according to Vermilion County Health Department Administrator Doug Toole. There was also one death from the virus reported earlier this year.
Thirty-one of the county’s 45 cases this year have involved people under the age of 50. Fifty-five percent of the people diagnosed in Vermilion County with COVID-19 this year are White. Over 37-percent are Black, and the other nearly 7-percent are Hispanic.
The two new cases reported Monday in Vermilion County are a resident in their 40s, and a grade-school aged child. Both share a household with a person who was diagnosed earlier with the virus.
In addition to the 45 positive cases this year there have also been 3,797 people whose tests came back negative.
