MURPHYSBORO (WSIL) -- The Jackson County Health Department has announced eight new cases of COVID-19.
The cases include:
- Females � One pre-teen/teen, one in her forties, and one in her fifties;
- Males � One pre-teen/teen, one in his twenties, one in his thirties, one in his forties, and one in his fifties.
The health department says all of the individuals are believed to have acquired the disease through either local contact with known cases or through transmission in the community.
All are being placed in isolation.
To date, there have been 120 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Jackson County. Forty of those confirmed cases have been released from isolation.
Currently, the  (IDPH) is reporting a total of 56,055 cases of COVID-19, including 2,457 deaths, in 97 counties in Illinois.
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