Rockford Sun

As of May 20, there have been 86 Winnebago County residents in their seventies who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 1,046 residents in their seventies in the county who had been tested, meaning that eight percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through May 20, there have been 1,615 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 40 deaths from the coronavirus in Winnebago 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 %
May 20	13,229	1,615	12.2
May 19	12,750	1,564	12.3
May 18	12,495	1,537	12.3
May 17	11,876	1,490	12.5
May 16	11,445	1,436	12.5
May 15	10,892	1,390	12.8
May 14	10,285	1,337	13.0
May 13	9,671	1,208	12.5
May 12	8,994	1,159	12.9
May 11	6,715	932	13.9