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Monday, April 21, 2025

28 Shelby County residents 80 or older test positive for COVID-19

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As of September 30, there have been 28 Shelby County residents 80 years of age and older who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 820 residents 80 and older in the county who had been tested, meaning that three percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through September 30, there have been 408 confirmed COVID-19 cases and four deaths 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.

Test results for the past 10 days in Shelby County
DateTotal TestedTotal PositivePositive %
September 307,1134085.7
September 297,0844025.7
September 287,0603945.6
September 277,0163905.6
September 266,9763855.5
September 256,9103725.4
September 246,7913665.4
September 236,7153605.4
September 226,6703525.3
September 216,6283485.3

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