Hinsdale Sees Small Hike In Virus Cases: Agencies

HINSDALE, IL – Hinsdale and Clarendon Hills each had the same number of new coronavirus cases in the last week, according to county agencies.

As of Sunday, Hinsdale had 3,230 coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, up eight in the last week. The previous week, the village recorded five new cases.

Meanwhile, Clarendon Hills reached 1,834 coronavirus cases, up eight in the last week. The week before, the village experienced 11 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 18.

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

As of Sunday, Hinsdale had 183 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 172 in Darien, 193 in DuPage County, 201 in Elmhurst, 206 in suburban Cook County, 209 in La Grange Park, 210 in Clarendon Hills, 213 in Western Springs and 218 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,0045,718, a 0.2 percent increase from the previous week, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 33,075.

Nationally, 79.3 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, a 1.5 percent increase from the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 964,774 people have died from the virus in the United States.