Darien Virus Cases Up In Last Week: County

DARIEN, IL – Darien's weekly coronavirus caseload increased in the last week, according to the DuPage County Health Department.

As of Sunday, Darien had seen 4,263 coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, up 80 in the last week. The previous week, the city experienced 70 new cases.

The city's number of coronavirus deaths stayed the same in the last week, at 37.

Here are the accumulated coronavirus cases throughout the pandemic:

As of Sunday, Darien had 197 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning, better than its neighbors. The figure compares with 206 in Hinsdale, 217 in DuPage County, 223 in suburban Cook County, 224 in Elmhurst, 237 in Western Springs, 239 in Clarendon Hills, 240 in La Grange Park and 246 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,249,534, a hike of 1.2 percent, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 33,761.

Nationally, 83.1 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, an increase of 0.9 percent in the last week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 999,254 people have died from the virus in the United States.