Sangamon Sun

As of June 5, there have been 38 Sangamon 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 2,591 residents in their sixties in the county who had been tested, meaning that one percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through June 5, there have been 360 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 29 deaths from the coronavirus in Sangamon 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 %
June 5	16,211	360	2.2
June 4	15,601	359	2.3
June 3	14,945	353	2.4
June 2	14,613	350	2.4
June 1	14,392	350	2.4
May 31	14,116	351	2.5
May 30	13,881	348	2.5
May 29	13,649	346	2.5
May 28	13,093	343	2.6
May 27	12,425	337	2.7