Rockford Sun

As of August 31, there have been 74 Boone 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 1,265 residents in their sixties in the county who had been tested, meaning that five percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through August 31, there have been 865 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 23 deaths from the coronavirus in Boone 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 %
August 31	11,248	865	7.7
August 30	11,169	860	7.7
August 29	11,122	856	7.7
August 28	11,050	849	7.7
August 27	10,970	846	7.7
August 26	10,866	843	7.8
August 25	10,711	835	7.8
August 24	10,637	827	7.8
August 23	10,590	823	7.8
August 22	10,482	815	7.8