Weekly COVID report: One new death; current and new cases still down

A woman in her 70’s died from COVID-19 this week in LaSalle County according to the LaSalle County Health Department. She’s the 514th death attributed to the virus so far. The health department reported 45 new cases with 64 recoveries this week. So far there have been 37,344 new COVID cases with 36,578 recoveries. Current COVID-19 cases in LaSalle County are still going down for a fifth week in a row. There were 766 current COVID cases this week compared to 785 last week.