1263 Will County residents in their sixties test positive for COVID-19

As of September 17, there have been 1,263 Will 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 24,876 residents in their sixties in the county who had been tested, meaning that five percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through September 17, there have been 13,130 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 369 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.