Vermilion County has recorded its first COVID-19 coronavirus death. County Health Department Administrator Douglas Toole says the victim is a 70-year-old man who had tested positive for the virus around Easter and was recently hospitalized.
In addition to the county’s first death related to the virus, Toole added the number of positive cases in Vermilion County has risen to eighteen. The latest county resident to be diagnosed with COVID-19 is a person in their teens.