Rock Island Today

As of August 7, there have been 113 Rock Island 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 4,081 residents in their seventies in the county who had been tested, meaning that two percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through August 7, there have been 1,679 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 34 deaths from the coronavirus in Rock Island 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 7	35,752	1,679	4.7
August 6	35,330	1,656	4.7
August 5	34,729	1,649	4.7
August 4	34,375	1,615	4.7
August 3	34,059	1,605	4.7
August 2	33,693	1,583	4.7
August 1	33,241	1,564	4.7
July 31	32,901	1,549	4.7
July 30	32,515	1,524	4.7
July 29	31,884	1,478	4.6