1225 Will County residents under 20 test positive for COVID-19

As of August 25, there have been 1,225 Will County residents under 20 years of age who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 14,950 residents under 20 in the county who had been tested, meaning that eight percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through August 25, there have been 10,927 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 354 deaths from the coronavirus in Will 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.