Hinsdale Saw Drop In New Virus Cases: Agencies

HINSDALE, IL – Hinsdale and Clarendon Hills saw decreases last week in the numbers of new coronavirus cases, according to county agencies.

As of Sunday, Hinsdale had 3,294 coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, up five in the last week. The previous week, the village recorded 49 new cases.

Meanwhile, Clarendon Hills reached 1,886 coronavirus cases, up two in the last week. The week before, the village experienced 43 cases.

Hinsdale's coronavirus deaths increased by one in the last week, with the total at 65 since the pandemic's beginning, according to county agencies. Clarendon Hills' number of deaths stayed the same in the last week, at 18.

Here is the growth in coronavirus case numbers in Hinsdale and Clarendon Hills:

As of Sunday, Hinsdale had 198 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 178 in Darien, 199 in DuPage County, 205 in Elmhurst, 208 in suburban Cook County, 211 in La Grange Park, 215 in Clarendon Hills, 216 in Western Springs and 221 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,069,050, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 33,394.

Nationally, 80 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 978,852 people have died from the virus in the United States.