Hinsdale Sees Small Drop In Virus Cases: Agencies

HINSDALE, IL — Hinsdale and Clarendon Hills saw their weekly coronavirus caseloads drop in the last week, according to county health agencies.

As of Sunday, Hinsdale had 3,177 coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, up 59 in the last week. The previous week, the village recorded 63 new cases.

Meanwhile, Clarendon Hills reached 1,778 coronavirus cases, up 29 in the last week. The week before, the village experienced 50 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 stayed the same in the last week, at 17.

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

As of Sunday, Hinsdale had 180 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 166 in Darien, 188 in DuPage County, 197 in Elmhurst, 201 in suburban Cook County, 203 in Clarendon Hills, 204 in La Grange Park, 208 in Western Springs and 211 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 2,987,502, a 1 percent increase from the previous week, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 31,795.

Nationally, 77.5 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, a 2 percent increase from the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 915,425 people have died from the virus in the United States.