Darien Weekly Virus Rate Levels Off: County

DARIEN, IL — For the second week in a row, Darien saw 10 new cases of the coronavirus, according to the DuPage County Health Department.

As of Sunday, Darien had seen 1,811 coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic. The last two weekly increases were lower than those of the two preceding weeks, when they were 16 and 15 new cases, respectively.

The city's number of coronavirus deaths stayed the same in the last week, at 22, as it has been for months. That works out to less than a thousandth of Darien's population.

The number of those who have recovered is unavailable.

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

As of Sunday, Darien had 83.7 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning, better than its neighbors. The figure compares to 90.2 in La Grange Park, 93.9 in DuPage County, 94.8 in Hinsdale, 96.3 in Elmhurst, 101.7 in Western Springs, 103.5 in Clarendon Hills, 104.3 in suburban Cook County, 107.1 in Burr Ridge and 123.8 in La Grange (including unincorporated La Grange Highlands).

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 1,436,353, up 1.2 percent from a week earlier, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 23,503

Nationally, 35.7 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, up 2.1 percent from the week before, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 614,291 people have died from the virus in the United States.