Lake County Gazette

As of May 15, there have been 689 Lake 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 3,459 residents in their sixties in the county who had been tested, meaning that 19 percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through May 15, there have been 6,157 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 207 deaths from the coronavirus in Lake 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.

Date	Total Tested	Total Positive	Positive %
May 15	25,587	6,157	24.1
May 14	24,494	5,992	24.5
May 13	22,856	5,758	25.2
May 12	22,088	5,662	25.6
May 11	20,184	5,323	26.4
May 10	19,852	5,245	26.4
May 9	19,492	5,199	26.7
May 8	18,421	4,985	27.1
May 7	17,518	4,762	27.2
May 6	16,215	4,529	27.9