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Saturday, May 3, 2025

737 Lake County residents in their seventies test positive for COVID-19

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As of September 17, there have been 737 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 17,672 residents in their seventies in the county who had been tested, meaning that four 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.

Test results for the past 10 days in Lake County
DateTotal TestedTotal PositivePositive %
September 17225,99116,0407.1
September 16224,32015,9997.1
September 15222,85615,8887.1
September 14221,42615,8187.1
September 13219,76915,7767.2
September 12218,00415,7007.2
September 11215,69415,5837.2
September 10213,64815,4727.2
September 9212,52015,3797.2
September 8210,68115,3497.3

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