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Sunday, May 25, 2025

403 Will County residents 80 or older test positive for COVID-19

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As of July 5, there have been 403 Will County residents 80 years of age and older who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 5,775 residents 80 and older in the county who had been tested, meaning that seven percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through July 5, there have been 6,923 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 320 deaths from the coronavirus in Will 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 Will County
DateTotal TestedTotal PositivePositive %
July 581,0996,9238.5
July 480,1506,8838.6
July 378,8496,8398.7
July 277,5596,7938.8
July 176,2376,7448.8
June 3074,5146,6869.0
June 2973,2406,6359.1
June 2872,2786,6089.1
June 2771,3206,5779.2
June 2669,9976,5429.3

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