Darien Sees Nearly 20% Virus Case Hike In 10 Days: County

DARIEN, IL — Darien saw an 18 percent increase in coronavirus cases in the last 10 days, according to the DuPage County Health Department.

As of Sunday, the number of cases was 528. That was up by 81 cases over the county's number a week before. According to the health department, it did not receive statistics from the state Department of Public Health for the three days before the latest week, which may explain the higher than usual percentage increase in local cases.

The total of local deaths from the coronavirus was eight as of Sunday, the same as it has been for weeks, according to the health department.

Here's a look at the number of accumulated cases since the beginning of the crisis:

Darien's rate of increase of 18 percent was less than DuPage County as a whole, which was 17 percent. Darien makes up 2.3 percent of the county's population, but only 1.9 percent of the county's coronavirus caseload.

As of Sunday, Darien had 24.4 coronavirus cases per thousand people, better than most of its neighbors. The figure compares to 22.6 in La Grange Park, 25.5 in Western Springs, 29.6 in Clarendon Hills, 30.3 in Hinsdale, 30.4 in Elmhurst, 30.6 in DuPage County, 34.6 in La Grange (including unincorporated La Grange Highlands), 35 in suburban Cook County and 36 in Burr Ridge.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 487,987, up 17 percent from a week earlier. The coronavirus has claimed the lives of 10,196 state residents.

Nationally, 9.8 million people have caught the virus, up 8 percent from the week before. A total of 236,547 people have died from the virus in the United States.

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