Darien Sees Drop In Weekly Virus Caseload: County

DARIEN, IL – Darien saw a reduction in the number of new coronavirus cases over the last week, according to the DuPage County Health Department.

As of Sunday, Darien had seen 4,183 coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, up 70 in the last week. The previous week, the city experienced 89 new cases.

The city's number of coronavirus deaths increased by one in the last week, to 37.

Here are the accumulated coronavirus cases throughout the pandemic:

As of Sunday, Darien had 193 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning, better than its neighbors. The figure compares to 203 in Hinsdale, 213 in DuPage County, 220 in Elmhurst and suburban Cook County, 232 in La Grange Park, 233 in Western Springs, 234 in Clarendon Hills, and 239 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,209,341, a hike of 1.3 percent, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 33,705.

Nationally, 82.3 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, an increase of 0.8 percent in the last week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 997,003 people have died from the virus in the United States.