No DeKalb County residents in their seventies test positive for COVID-19 on May 7

By Metric Media News Service

May 8, 2020

As of May 7 there were 10 DeKalb County residents in their seventies 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 DeKalb County

Date	Total Tested	Total Positive	Positive %
2020-05-07	1,310	149	11.4%
2020-05-06	1,232	141	11.4%
2020-05-05	1,141	132	11.6%
2020-05-04	1,073	130	12.1%
2020-05-02	976	114	11.7%
2020-04-30	876	95	10.8%
2020-04-29	815	90	11%
2020-04-28	763	82	10.7%
2020-04-27	724	76	10.5%
2020-04-26	675	71	10.5%