Rockford Sun

As of May 31, there have been 219 Winnebago 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 2,671 residents in their sixties in the county who had been tested, meaning that eight percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through May 31, there have been 2,251 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 55 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 31	19,976	2,251	11.3
May 30	19,551	2,209	11.3
May 29	19,001	2,156	11.3
May 28	18,637	2,091	11.2
May 27	18,101	2,001	11.1
May 26	17,835	1,993	11.2
May 25	17,422	1,953	11.2
May 24	17,016	1,925	11.3
May 23	16,132	1,838	11.4
May 22	15,353	1,780	11.6