Three more Sangamon County residents have died of complications from COVID-19, as the county surpasses 44,000 total cases of the virus in less than two years.
The latest deaths were a woman in her 40s and a man in his 90s, both of whom were unvaccinated and a man in his 80s who had been vaccinated but had not gotten a booster. The county’s death toll from COVID now stands at 329. There were 793 new confirmed cases reported Friday, for a total of 44,096 since the start of the pandemic.
118 Sangamon County residents are currently hospitalized with the virus.
