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17 Jersey County residents in their sixties test positive for COVID-19

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As of August 6, there have been 17 Jersey County residents in their sixties who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 375 residents in their sixties in the county who had been tested, meaning that four percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through August 6, there have been 85 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 %
August 62,247853.8
August 52,180743.4
August 42,123733.4
August 32,098703.3
August 22,076693.3
August 12,032653.2
July 312,017623.1
July 301,995613.1
July 291,970593.0
July 281,947593.0

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