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8 Ford County residents in their seventies test positive for COVID-19

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As of August 30, there have been eight Ford 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 332 residents in their seventies in the county who had been tested, meaning that two percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through August 30, there have been 70 confirmed COVID-19 cases and two deaths from the coronavirus in Ford 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 Ford County
DateTotal TestedTotal PositivePositive %
August 303,413702.1
August 293,353712.1
August 283,341702.1
August 273,235692.1
August 263,207692.2
August 253,184682.1
August 243,166702.2
August 233,056702.3
August 222,996692.3
August 212,953682.3

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