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Sunday, July 27, 2025

113 Kankakee County residents in their seventies test positive for COVID-19

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As of August 5, there have been 113 Kankakee 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 3,416 residents in their seventies in the county who had been tested, meaning that three percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through August 5, there have been 1,708 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 68 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 %
August 529,3011,7085.8
August 428,7381,6985.9
August 328,5231,6865.9
August 228,3211,6845.9
August 128,0621,6726.0
July 3127,7401,6596.0
July 3027,1941,6436.0
July 2926,7031,6346.1
July 2826,2831,6246.2
July 2726,0681,6066.2

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