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Monday, July 14, 2025

470 Will County residents in their seventies test positive for COVID-19

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As of August 1, there have been 470 Will County residents in their seventies who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 10,181 residents in their seventies in the county who had been tested, meaning that four percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through August 1, there have been 8,502 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 339 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 %
August 1116,5658,5027.3
July 31115,2808,4437.3
July 30113,4118,3527.4
July 29112,0848,2607.4
July 28110,6798,1917.4
July 27109,6428,1487.4
July 26108,5898,1017.5
July 25106,9638,0247.5
July 24105,6927,9777.5
July 23104,2287,9257.6

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