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Monday, April 21, 2025

474 DuPage County residents in their seventies test positive for COVID-19

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As of May 18, there have been 474 DuPage County residents in their seventies who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 3,393 residents in their seventies in the county who had been tested, meaning that 14 percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through May 18, there have been 6,076 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 300 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.

Test results for the past 10 days in DuPage County
DateTotal TestedTotal PositivePositive %
May 1836,7436,07616.5
May 1735,2455,90416.8
May 1633,9615,78017.0
May 1532,4225,63417.4
May 1431,0885,45317.5
May 1329,8405,24417.6
May 1228,6165,12117.9
May 1126,2144,74518.1
May 1025,4844,60318.1
May 924,8904,49318.1

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