Lake County Gazette

As of April 30, there have been 647 Lake County residents in their forties who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 2,295 residents in their forties in the county who had been tested, meaning that 28 percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through April 30, there have been 3,509 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 138 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 %
April 30	13,107	3,509	26.8
April 29	12,394	3,382	27.3
April 28	11,609	3,192	27.5
April 27	11,054	3,080	27.9
April 26	10,571	2,990	28.3
April 25	9,921	2,879	29.0
April 24	9,292	2,717	29.2
April 23	8,775	2,540	28.9
April 22	8,411	2,379	28.3
April 21	8,073	2,287	28.3