Darien Virus Cases Level Off: County

DARIEN, IL — Darien's weekly number of coronavirus cases has stayed about the same, according to the DuPage County Health Department.

As of Sunday, Darien had seen 3,663 coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, up 33 in the last week. The previous week, the city experienced 30 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 169 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning, better than its neighbors. The figure compares to 182 in Hinsdale, 191 in DuPage County, 200 in Elmhurst, 204 in suburban Cook County, 207 in Clarendon Hills and La Grange Park, 212 in Western Springs and 215 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,026,737, a 0.1 percent increase from the previous week, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 32,654.

Nationally, 78.7 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, a 0.6 percent increase from the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 944,517 people have died from the virus in the United States.