Avon Lake Averaging 60 COVID-19 Cases Per Week

AVON LAKE, OH — Over the past 21 days, Avon Lake has averaged 60 new COVID-19 cases per week.

In the past three weeks, there have been 178 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among Avon Lake residents, according to Mayor Greg Zilka. In Lorain County, there were 2,817 new cases during that same time span.

Zilka noted that both numbers are trending down.

The COVID-19 vaccination process is in full swing in Ohio and in Lorain County, according to the Ohio Department of Health. The state's COVID-19 vaccination dashboard says that 1.71 percent of Ohio's population, nearly 200,000 people, have started the vaccination process.

In Lorain County, 6,157 people (nearly 2 percent of the county) have received at least the first part of the vaccine.

Since the start of the pandemic, Lorain County has had 15,790 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among residents, according to the state health department. Lorain currently ranks 21 out of Ohio's 88 counties for highest occurrence of COVID-19, with 760.4 cases per 100,000 residents. Between Dec. 21 and Jan. 3, there were 2,356 active COVID-19 cases among Lorain County residents.