COVID-19 Cases Increase 239% Last 14 Days In Arlington Heights

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL — After nearly four months of declining numbers, Arlington Heights is seeing in an increase in coronavirus cases again. The number of new cases in Arlington Heights jumped 239 percent over the last two weeks, according to the Cook County Department of Public Health.

In all, Arlington Heights has seen 6,788 confirmed COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic. There were 32 new cases reported last week. Since the first death was recorded on April 8, 2020, 132 Arlington Heights residents have died from the coronavirus. The last two deaths came on June 7 and June 9.

In Arlington Heights, 48,512 people have completed their vaccine series, which is 65 percent of the population.

There have been 254,109 coronavirus cases in Cook County (excluding Chicago, Evanston, Oak Park, Skokie, and Stickney Township) since the start of the pandemic, as of Monday. There have been 4,496 deaths. The community transmission level is labeled as moderate at this time, according to the Cook County health officials.

For the week ending July 30, Illinois saw 11,682 new coronavirus cases, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. In addition, 39 more Illinoisans have died from COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus, and 903 are hospitalized, including 167 in intensive care and 62 on ventilators.

More than 74 percent of Illinois adults have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, and more than 58 percent of Illinois adults are fully vaccinated, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

While vaccinated individuals have reported some mostly mild breakthrough cases, almost all hospitalizations and deaths have been among the unvaccinated, health officials said.

Two months after Illinois declared that masks are no longer needed "in most settings" for vaccinated people, surging coronavirus cases nationwide have prompted the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to urge residents — even those who are vaccinated — to mask up indoors once more in areas with substantial and high transmission of COVID-19.

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