1005 DuPage County residents 80 or older test positive for COVID-19

As of September 19, there have been 1,005 DuPage 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 26,238 residents 80 and older in the county who had been tested, meaning that three percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through September 19, there have been 16,622 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 550 deaths from the coronavirus in DuPage 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.