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Thursday, May 1, 2025

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

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As of September 27, there have been 843 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 17,694 residents 80 and older in the county who had been tested, meaning that four percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through September 27, there have been 16,892 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 487 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 27247,44116,8926.8
September 26246,00316,7946.8
September 25244,00116,7336.9
September 24241,21016,6366.9
September 23238,81816,5456.9
September 22237,46316,4896.9
September 21235,63516,4057.0
September 20234,57516,2996.9
September 19232,64916,2857.0
September 18227,39216,1757.1

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