The latest COVID numbers from the Vermilion County Health Department show 150 new cases, including 51 under the age of 20. This includes 20 teenagers, 19 grade-school-aged children, five pre-schoolers, two toddlers, and five infants.
There are also four additional COVID deaths, bringing Vermilion County’s COVID total to 182. The four latest victims included two men in their 60s, a women in her 50s, and a woman in her 30s.
In the last 30 days, Vermilion County has had 25 COVID deaths, all in the age ranges of 30s through 90s.
Vermilion County has 32 residents currently hospitalized with COVID, and 198 active cases in the county.
The health department urges the community to get vaccinated, get tested, stay home when they are sick, and to wear face masks while indoors regardless of vaccination status due to the county’s high transmission status.







