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Sunday, July 27, 2025

109 Kankakee County residents 80 or older test positive for COVID-19

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As of August 6, there have been 109 Kankakee 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 2,924 residents 80 and older in the county who had been tested, meaning that three 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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