Peoria Standard

As of July 5, there have been 44 Peoria 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 3,654 residents in their sixties in the county who had been tested, meaning that one percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through July 5, there have been 556 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 28 deaths from the coronavirus in Peoria 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 5	21,468	556	2.6
July 4	21,073	551	2.6
July 3	20,644	546	2.6
July 2	20,095	507	2.5
July 1	19,653	499	2.5
June 30	19,306	487	2.5
June 29	18,886	487	2.6
June 28	18,532	475	2.6
June 27	18,315	468	2.6
June 26	17,800	463	2.6