Lake County Gazette

As of July 11, there have been 559 Lake 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 8,788 residents in their seventies in the county who had been tested, meaning that six percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through July 11, there have been 10,318 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 428 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 %
July 11	100,715	10,318	10.2
July 10	98,873	10,253	10.4
July 9	96,928	10,175	10.5
July 8	95,032	10,104	10.6
July 7	93,418	10,039	10.7
July 6	91,988	10,007	10.9
July 5	90,696	9,954	11.0
July 4	89,547	9,919	11.1
July 3	87,740	9,864	11.2
July 2	86,258	9,811	11.4