South Central Reporter

As of April 30, there have been seven Clinton County residents in their seventies who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 35 residents in their seventies in the county who had been tested, meaning that 20 percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through April 30, there have been 106 confirmed COVID-19 cases and three deaths from the coronavirus in Clinton 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 %
April 30	477	106	22.2
April 29	417	101	24.2
April 28	370	90	24.3
April 27	343	85	24.8
April 26	338	84	24.9
April 25	330	82	24.8
April 24	301	73	24.3
April 23	242	51	21.1
April 22	228	49	21.5
April 21	222	46	20.7