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Thursday, July 10, 2025

708 Lake County residents 80 or older test positive for COVID-19

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As of July 19, there have been 708 Lake County residents 80 years of age and older who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 10,116 residents 80 and older in the county who had been tested, meaning that seven percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through July 19, there have been 10,818 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 433 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.

Test results for the past 10 days in Lake County
DateTotal TestedTotal PositivePositive %
July 19116,32510,8189.3
July 18114,65010,7679.4
July 17112,89410,7079.5
July 16110,65910,6539.6
July 15108,13310,5619.8
July 14106,26410,4649.8
July 13104,80110,4229.9
July 12102,99110,37810.1
July 11100,71510,31810.2
July 1098,87310,25310.4

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