East Central Reporter

As of July 22, there have been seven Shelby 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 343 residents in their sixties in the county who had been tested, meaning that two percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through July 22, there have been 31 confirmed COVID-19 cases and one death from the coronavirus in Shelby 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 %
July 22	2,465	31	1.3
July 21	2,429	29	1.2
July 20	2,407	29	1.2
July 19	2,377	29	1.2
July 18	2,352	27	1.1
July 17	2,312	27	1.2
July 16	2,256	24	1.1
July 15	2,199	23	1.0
July 14	2,117	21	1.0
July 13	2,095	21	1.0