Lake County Gazette

As of July 8, there have been 551 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 8,331 residents in their seventies in the county who had been tested, meaning that six percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through July 8, there have been 10,104 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 427 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 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
July 1	84,889	9,752	11.5
June 30	83,472	9,719	11.6
June 29	81,907	9,695	11.8