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131 Kankakee County residents under 20 test positive for COVID-19

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As of July 8, there have been 131 Kankakee County residents under 20 years of age who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 1,127 residents under 20 in the county who had been tested, meaning that 11 percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through July 8, there have been 1,335 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 65 deaths from the coronavirus in Kankakee 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 Kankakee County
DateTotal TestedTotal PositivePositive %
July 818,1571,3357.4
July 717,8931,3127.3
July 617,5441,3117.5
July 517,3521,3077.5
July 417,1341,3047.6
July 316,8971,3027.7
July 216,6421,2997.8
July 116,1001,2858.0
June 3015,5361,2728.2
June 2915,2771,2698.3

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