1336 DuPage County residents under 20 test positive for COVID-19

As of August 12, there have been 1,336 DuPage 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 18,300 residents under 20 in the county who had been tested, meaning that seven percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through August 12, there have been 12,511 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 522 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.