Darien Sees Fall In Virus Cases: County

DARIEN, IL — Darien continued its trend of decreases in coronavirus cases last week, according to the DuPage County Health Department.

As of Sunday, Darien had seen 3,630 coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, up 30 in the last week. The previous week, the city experienced 67 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 168 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning, better than its neighbors. The figure compares to 182 in Hinsdale, 190 in DuPage County, 198 in Elmhurst, 203 in suburban Cook County, 205 in Clarendon Hills, 206 in La Grange Park, 210 in Western Springs and 213 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,013,709, a 0.9 percent increase from the previous week, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 32,299.

Nationally, 78.3 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, a 1 percent increase from the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 930,811 people have died from the virus in the United States.