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Saturday, August 23, 2025

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

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As of August 7, there have been 903 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 17,565 residents 80 and older in the county who had been tested, meaning that five percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through August 7, there have been 12,021 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 519 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 %
August 7190,72712,0216.3
August 6187,28711,9266.4
August 5184,70611,8046.4
August 4182,49011,6896.4
August 3179,22611,5586.4
August 2177,21511,4706.5
August 1174,09311,3806.5
July 31172,02111,2676.5
July 30168,65611,1776.6
July 29166,31711,0846.7

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