The Marion County Health Department is reporting 77 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday.
Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow says 16 were fully vaccinated. Unlike most recent days where a large number of cases have been in school-age children, only one of the cases reported Friday fit in that category. None were long-term care residents. Cases were mostly spread from those in their 20s to 80s. The department considers 67 of the cases as community spread and ten spread from household or close contacts.
There are now 728 active cases in Marion County. 33 of those are in the hospital, including four on ventilators. Of those in the hospital two are in their 30s, five in their 40s, ten in their 50s, 11 in their 60s, three in their 70s, and two in their 80s.
Statewide, the death toll in Illinois from the coronavirus pandemic has surpassed 25,000. The State Department of Public Health reported the disease has killed 236 additional people since its last weekly report last Friday. Illinois’ death toll is now 25,017. The total number of cases in the state now totals more than $1,630,000. There were 18,735 new confirmed and probable cases of the disease reported over the past week.
