17 DuPage County residents in their forties test positive for COVID-19 on Aug. 6

17 DuPage County residents in their forties tested positive for COVID-19 on August 6, according to numbers being reported by the Illinois Department of Public Health.

In total, there have been 1,848 positive cases reported in DuPage County among residents in their forties, accounting for 15.5 percent of all cases in the county. Through August 6, DuPage County has reported a total of 11,926 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, 519 of which have ended with the victim's death.

Illinois gathers all of their 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.