East Central Reporter

As of August 31, there have been eight Crawford 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 269 residents in their seventies in the county who had been tested, meaning that three percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through August 31, there have been 78 confirmed COVID-19 cases and no deaths from the coronavirus in Crawford 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	2,435	78	3.2
August 30	2,416	77	3.2
August 29	2,396	77	3.2
August 28	2,369	72	3.0
August 27	2,349	72	3.1
August 26	2,340	72	3.1
August 25	2,213	61	2.8
August 24	2,147	57	2.7
August 23	2,072	52	2.5
August 22	2,035	49	2.4