NW Illinois News

As of July 20, there have been eight Jo Daviess County residents in their sixties who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 465 residents in their sixties in the county who had been tested, meaning that one percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through July 20, there have been 66 confirmed COVID-19 cases and one death from the coronavirus in Jo Daviess 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 %
July 20	2,298	66	2.9
July 19	2,252	64	2.8
July 18	2,227	63	2.8
July 17	2,191	58	2.6
July 16	2,169	58	2.7
July 15	2,148	57	2.7
July 14	2,124	55	2.6
July 13	2,073	56	2.7
July 12	2,018	55	2.7
July 11	1,971	54	2.7