No Mercer County residents in their seventies test positive for COVID-19 on Aug. 18

By Rock Island Today

Aug 19, 2020

As of August 18 there were six Mercer 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 Mercer County

Date	Total Tested	Total Positive	Positive %
2020-08-18	2,733	82	3%
2020-08-17	2,723	81	3%
2020-08-16	2,681	79	2.9%
2020-08-15	2,627	78	3%
2020-08-14	2,609	76	2.9%
2020-08-13	2,589	77	3%
2020-08-12	2,565	77	3%
2020-08-11	2,545	76	3%
2020-08-10	2,441	76	3.1%
2020-08-09	2,416	75	3.1%