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

As of June 26, there have been 722 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 9,922 residents in their sixties in the county who had been tested, meaning that seven percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through June 26, there have been 6,542 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 316 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.