No Fayette County residents 80 or older test positive for COVID-19 on May 17

By Metric Media News Service

May 18, 2020

As of May 17 there were six Fayette County residents 80 years of age and older 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 Fayette County

Date	Total Tested	Total Positive	Positive %
2020-05-17	292	19	6.5%
2020-05-16	284	19	6.7%
2020-05-15	270	19	7%
2020-05-14	252	17	6.7%
2020-05-13	238	17	7.1%
2020-05-12	228	17	7.5%
2020-05-11	220	17	7.7%
2020-05-10	215	17	7.9%
2020-05-09	200	17	8.5%
2020-05-08	189	17	9%