Lake County Gazette

As of September 17, there have been 826 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 16,545 residents 80 and older in the county who had been tested, meaning that five percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through September 17, there have been 16,040 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 483 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 %
September 17	225,991	16,040	7.1
September 16	224,320	15,999	7.1
September 15	222,856	15,888	7.1
September 14	221,426	15,818	7.1
September 13	219,769	15,776	7.2
September 12	218,004	15,700	7.2
September 11	215,694	15,583	7.2
September 10	213,648	15,472	7.2
September 9	212,520	15,379	7.2
September 8	210,681	15,349	7.3