No Jasper County residents in their seventies test positive for COVID-19 on May 18

By Metric Media News Service

May 19, 2020

As of May 18 there were six Jasper County residents in their seventies who were tested for the Coronavirus, none of those tests have come back positive for the virus, according to numbers being reported by the Illinois Department of Public Health.

Illinois gathers all of their 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 Jasper County

Date	Total Tested	Total Positive	Positive %
2020-05-18	336	45	13.4%
2020-05-17	333	45	13.5%
2020-05-16	328	46	14%
2020-05-15	320	45	14.1%
2020-05-14	300	45	15%
2020-05-13	258	45	17.4%
2020-05-12	254	46	18.1%
2020-05-11	254	46	18.1%
2020-05-10	254	46	18.1%
2020-05-09	252	46	18.3%