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Thursday, April 3, 2025

19 Lake County residents in their sixties test positive for COVID-19 on May 8

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19 Lake County residents in their sixties tested positive for COVID-19 on May 8, according to numbers being reported by the Illinois Department of Public Health.

In total, there have been 573 positive cases reported in Lake County among residents in their sixties, accounting for 11.5 percent of all cases in the county. Through May 8, Lake County has reported a total of 4,985 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, 170 of which have ended with the victim's death.

Illinois gathers all of their 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 Lake County
DateTotal TestedTotal PositivePositive %
2020-05-0818,4214,98527.1%
2020-05-0717,5184,76227.2%
2020-05-0616,2154,52927.9%
2020-05-0515,7964,37027.7%
2020-05-0415,4274,25227.6%
2020-05-0214,1083,97528.2%
2020-04-3013,1073,50926.8%
2020-04-2912,3943,38227.3%
2020-04-2811,6093,19227.5%
2020-04-2711,0543,08027.9%

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