Darien's Virus Caseload Falls Again: County

DARIEN, IL — The number of new coronavirus cases in Darien fell again last week, according to the DuPage County Health Department.

As of Sunday, Darien had seen 3,688 coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, up 25 in the last week. The previous week, the city experienced 33 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 171 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning, better than its neighbors. The figure compares to 183 in Hinsdale, 193 in DuPage County, 201 in Elmhurst, 205 in suburban Cook County, 208 in La Grange Park, 209 in Clarendon Hills, 212 in Western Springs and 216 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,037,199, a 0.4 percent increase from the previous week, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 32,926.

Nationally, 78.1 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, a 0.4 percent increase from the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 955,135 people have died from the virus in the United States.