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Thursday, May 15, 2025

41 Jackson County residents in their fifties test positive for COVID-19

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As of July 8, there have been 41 Jackson County residents in their fifties who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 757 residents in their fifties in the county who had been tested, meaning that five percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through July 8, there have been 343 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 19 deaths from the coronavirus in Jackson 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 Jackson County
DateTotal TestedTotal PositivePositive %
July 86,0393435.7
July 75,9533405.7
July 65,8213405.8
July 55,7683395.9
July 45,6963365.9
July 35,6613355.9
July 25,5913336.0
July 15,5403326.0
June 305,4083326.1
June 295,2813296.2

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