CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- They were the sites of some of the biggest outbreaks earlier in the pandemic, now local county jails are seeing rising COVID cases again, much like the populations outside their walls.
At the Cook County Jail, 178 detainees have tested positive for COVID-19. The Cook County Sheriff’s Office said that’s just over 3 percent of the nearly 6,000 people in custody, and bout a half of the cases are among recent admissions.
In Kane County, it’s about 8 percent of the jail population. Kane County Sheriff Ron Hain told the Daily Herald, 27 of those 30 are not vaccinated.
DuPage County has one positive detainee in isolation - a person who was symptomatic when they entered the jail. At the DuPage County Jail, all incoming detainees are put in to a 14-day quarantine as a precaution and are offered COVID-19 vaccines.
Meanwhile, an outbreak in the Lake County Jail appears to have subsided, with now only two workers and three detainees still in quarantine. That’s down from about 100 last month.
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