Kane County Coronavirus Cases Approach 11K; 308 Deaths

KANE COUNTY, IL — A second wave of the coronavirus in Kane County has yet to subside, public health data shows.

The county’s 7-day rolling average of new cases hit a two-month high — 85.2 — in early August before beginning to drop. But the 7-day rolling average — a measure that takes into account daily fluctuations in testing to show longer-term trends in coronavirus data — climbed back to 85.3 cases by Aug. 22, public health data shows.

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Nearly 250 Kane County residents tested positive for the coronavirus since Friday, taking the county’s total to 10,863, as of Monday. Statistics from the Illinois Department of Public Health show 125 Kane County residents tested positive Aug. 16, the most in a single-day since May 25.

Of the 952 residents who tested positive in the past two weeks, 243 were from Aurora, 198 were from Elgin, 154 were from St. Charles and 86 were from Carpentersville. New cases during that period also include 53 in South Elgin, 39 in Batavia and 38 in Geneva, the data shows.

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Kane County recorded more new coronavirus cases in the first 20 days of August than in all of July, but deaths have fallen significantly, according to public health data. Officials have reported 10 coronavirus-related deaths in Kane Country during August, down from 29 deaths in July.

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State officials have implemented new coronavirus restrictions on businesses and activities in Region 4 (Metro East) and Region 7 (Will and Kankakee counties) after those regions recorded positivity rates of more than 8 percent for three consecutive days.

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The positivity rate in Region 8 — made up of Kane and DuPage counties — is on the rise again after fluctuating between 4.5 percent and 5 percent for the first half of August. Region 8’s positivity rate rote 1 percentage point in a week, climbing from 4.8 percent on Aug. 15 to 5.8 percent by Aug. 21.

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State officials are also prepared to implement new restrictions if a region reports daily positivity-rate increases seven times within 10 days, along with an increase in hospital admissions due to coronavirus-related symptoms or a drop in capacity in intensive care units.

Officials from Region 8, also called the West Suburban region, have reported positivity-rate increases five times in the past 10 days, as well as two upticks in hospital admissions over the same period.

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Fifty percent of Region 8’s ICU units and 33 percent of medical/surgical beds are currently available, well above the state's 20 percent threshold for new restrictions.

The Illinois Department of Public Health on Aug. 14 added Kane County to its warning list for new restrictions after the county’s coronavirus data exceeded two of its six countywide metrics. The county was removed from the list a week later, after reporting a drop in coronavirus-related deaths that week.

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Kane County remains at the warning level for one metric after recording 80 cases per 100,000 people between Aug. 9 and Aug. 15. The IDPH has set a target of 50 cases per 100,000 people.

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