Sangamon Sun

As of August 31, there have been 282 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 12,705 residents in their fifties in the county who had been tested, meaning that two percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through August 31, there have been 1,784 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 37 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 31	78,046	1,784	2.3
August 30	77,025	1,751	2.3
August 29	76,594	1,744	2.3
August 28	75,713	1,724	2.3
August 27	75,243	1,701	2.3
August 26	74,741	1,680	2.2
August 25	73,771	1,656	2.2
August 24	72,877	1,637	2.2
August 23	72,508	1,612	2.2
August 22	71,717	1,593	2.2