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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

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

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As of September 11, there have been 158 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 4,414 residents 80 and older in the county who had been tested, meaning that three percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through September 11, there have been 2,475 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 72 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 %
September 1144,4812,4755.6
September 1043,9852,4675.6
September 943,4192,4355.6
September 843,0892,4265.6
September 742,7452,4155.6
September 642,5922,3945.6
September 542,1882,3715.6
September 441,9432,3545.6
September 340,3012,2905.7
September 239,8362,2745.7

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