Another Drop In Darien Virus Cases: County

DARIEN, IL – Darien experienced yet another drop in coronavirus cases in the last week, according to the DuPage County Health Department.

As of Sunday, Darien had seen 3,731 coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, up 20 in the last week. The previous week, the city experienced 23 new cases.

The city's number of coronavirus deaths stayed the same in the last week, at 35. The deaths work out to about a thousandth of Darien's population.

Here are the accumulated coronavirus cases throughout the pandemic:

As of Sunday, Darien had 173 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning, better than its neighbors. The figure compares to 184 in Hinsdale, 195 in DuPage County, 202 in Elmhurst, 206 in suburban Cook County, 209 in La Grange Park, 210 in Clarendon Hills, 214 in Western Springs and 218 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,053,185, a 0.3 percent increase from the previous week, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 33,198.

Nationally, 79.6 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, a 0.3 percent increase from the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 968,839 people have died from the virus in the United States.