Darien Virus Case Count Remains High: County

DARIEN, IL — Darien's coronavirus case count dropped last week, but remains higher than previous surges, according to the DuPage County Health Department.

As of Sunday, Darien had seen 3,129 coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, up 140 in the last week. The week before last, the city experienced 164 new cases. These latest numbers exceed the high in the surge in November 2020, which reached a weekly high of 125.

The city's number of coronavirus deaths increased by one in the last week, to 34. 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 145 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning, better than its neighbors. The figure compares to 162 in Hinsdale, 169 in DuPage County, 177 in Clarendon Hills, 178 in Elmhurst, 186 in La Grange Park, 188 in suburban Cook County, 189 in Western Springs and 194 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 2,773,362, an 7.1 percent increase from the previous week, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 29,845.

Nationally, 70.2 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, a 7.1 percent increase from the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 862,494 people have died from the virus in the United States.