Lake County Gazette

As of August 12, there have been 636 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 13,303 residents in their seventies in the county who had been tested, meaning that four percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through August 12, there have been 12,939 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 449 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 %
August 12	162,965	12,939	7.9
August 11	161,076	12,852	8.0
August 10	159,002	12,741	8.0
August 9	157,134	12,670	8.1
August 8	155,081	12,617	8.1
August 7	152,885	12,491	8.2
August 6	150,683	12,376	8.2
August 5	148,672	12,315	8.3
August 4	146,349	12,223	8.4
August 3	144,056	12,089	8.4