Darien Sees Hike In Virus Cases: County

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

As of Sunday, Darien had seen 3,891 coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, up 31 in the last week. The previous week, the city experienced 13 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 180 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning, better than its neighbors. The figure compares to 189 in Hinsdale, 201 in DuPage County, 208 in Elmhurst, 210 in suburban Cook County, 213 in La Grange Park, 218 in Clarendon Hills, 219 in Western Springs and 224 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,094,485, a hike of 0.3 percent, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 33,510.

Nationally, 80.4 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, an increase of 0.3 percent in the last week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 986,042 people have died from the virus in the United States.