Sangamon Sun

As of August 21, there have been 235 Sangamon County residents in their fifties who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 11,654 residents in their fifties in the county who had been tested, meaning that two percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through August 21, there have been 1,570 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 36 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 %
August 21	70,962	1,570	2.2
August 20	70,273	1,544	2.2
August 19	69,276	1,532	2.2
August 18	68,250	1,487	2.2
August 17	67,394	1,462	2.2
August 16	67,012	1,447	2.2
August 15	66,483	1,422	2.1
August 14	65,543	1,391	2.1
August 13	64,380	1,345	2.1
August 12	63,096	1,323	2.1