Carbondale Reporter

As of June 4, there have been seven Williamson County residents in their sixties who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 429 residents in their sixties in the county who had been tested, meaning that one percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through June 4, there have been 74 confirmed COVID-19 cases and three deaths from the coronavirus in Williamson 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.

Date	Total Tested	Total Positive	Positive %
June 4	2,656	74	2.8
June 3	2,547	71	2.8
June 2	2,480	68	2.7
June 1	2,422	67	2.8
May 31	2,372	67	2.8
May 30	2,272	66	2.9
May 29	2,225	64	2.9
May 28	2,135	60	2.8
May 27	2,049	57	2.8
May 26	1,998	54	2.7