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8 Jersey County residents under 20 test positive for COVID-19

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As of July 31, there have been eight Jersey County residents under 20 years of age who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 139 residents under 20 in the county who had been tested, meaning that five percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through July 31, there have been 62 confirmed COVID-19 cases and one death from the coronavirus in Jersey County.

Illinois gathers all of its COVID-19 data from across the state electronically. The reported cases and deaths will fluctuate as additional info is gathered. Chicago was home to one of the first known cases of COVID-19 in the US, as well as it's transmission.

Test results for the past 10 days in Jersey County
DateTotal TestedTotal PositivePositive %
July 312,017623.1
July 301,995613.1
July 291,970593.0
July 281,947593.0
July 271,922593.1
July 261,889593.1
July 251,863593.2
July 241,834583.2
July 231,807573.2
July 221,780563.1

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