South Central Reporter

As of September 20, there have been 37 Montgomery 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 2,060 residents in their sixties in the county who had been tested, meaning that one percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through September 20, there have been 322 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 13 deaths from the coronavirus in Montgomery 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 %
September 20	12,618	322	2.6
September 19	12,375	318	2.6
September 18	12,265	309	2.5
September 17	12,114	300	2.5
September 16	11,863	290	2.4
September 15	11,589	287	2.5
September 14	11,553	288	2.5
September 13	11,488	287	2.5
September 12	11,377	288	2.5
September 11	11,188	279	2.5