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

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As of August 6, there have been 198 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 2,086 residents under 20 in the county who had been tested, meaning that nine percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through August 6, there have been 1,713 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 629,6581,7135.8
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

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