Hinsdale Sees Big Drop In Virus Cases: Agencies

HINSDALE, IL — Hinsdale and Clarendon Hills saw significant drops in their coronavirus cases in the last week, according to county health agencies.

As of Sunday, Hinsdale had 3,203 coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, up 26 in the last week. The previous week, the village recorded 59 new cases.

Meanwhile, Clarendon Hills reached 1,796 coronavirus cases, up 18 in the last week. The week before, the village experienced 29 cases.

Hinsdale's coronavirus deaths stayed the same in the last week, with the total at 64 since the pandemic's beginning, according to county agencies. Clarendon Hills' number of deaths increased by one in the last week, to 17.

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

As of Sunday, Hinsdale had 182 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 168 in Darien, 190 in DuPage County, 198 in Elmhurst, 203 in suburban Cook County, 205 in Clarendon Hills, 206 in La Grange Park, 210 in Western Springs and 213 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,013,709, a 0.9 percent increase from the previous week, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 32,299.

Nationally, 78.3 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, a 1 percent increase from the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 930,811 people have died from the virus in the United States.