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Logan Correction Center Reports 63 total cases in Inmate Population, Logan County Reports First Fatality

63 inmates at Logan Correction Center have now tested positive for the coronavirus.

 

The Illinois Department of Corrections page indicates there are now 14 positive cases among staffers. There are ten recoveries among staffers and two among inmates.

 

At the Lincoln Correction Center, eight staff have tested positive. One inmate is positive and one staffer has recovered.

 

The Logan County Health Department is also reporting the County's first coronavirus related fatality.

 

The Health Department reports a woman in her 70s who was being treated for COVID-19 in Springfield died on August 7. She had been hospitalized since July 25.

 

Logan County has 110 total positives and 35 active cases. They are reporting a 1.8-percent positivity rate.

 

Late last week, a DeWitt County resident tested positive for COVID. The individual is a 31-year old male. DeWitt County now has 32 total cases. Piatt County reported a total of seven news cases last week, bringing their County's total of 56 total cases.

 

The DeWitt/Piatt Bi-County Health Department emphasizes according to the Governor's guidelines, neither county is at the 'Warning Level'. 

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