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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

722 DuPage County residents 80 or older test positive for COVID-19

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As of May 29, there have been 722 DuPage County residents 80 years of age and older who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 4,890 residents 80 and older in the county who had been tested, meaning that 14 percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through May 29, there have been 7,543 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 362 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 2953,3887,54314.1
May 2851,8917,46014.4
May 2750,6407,35014.5
May 2649,5577,29014.7
May 2548,2877,20714.9
May 2446,8257,06015.1
May 2345,4116,89115.2
May 2243,8616,74415.4
May 2141,2116,47115.7
May 2039,6226,30815.9

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