Another Jump In Elmhurst Virus Case Rate: County

ELMHURST, IL – Elmhurst saw yet another increase in the number of new coronavirus cases in the last week, according to the DuPage County Health Department.

As of Sunday, the city had seen 9,822 cases since the beginning of the pandemic, up 109 from a week before. That's higher than the previous week's 72. The city hit a weekly record of 599 in January.

The number of coronavirus-related deaths in Elmhurst stayed the same in the last week, at 95. The mortality rate among those locally with the coronavirus is 1 percent.

Here is how Elmhurst's coronavirus cases have grown over time:

As of Sunday, Elmhurst had 210 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 182 in Darien, 192 in Hinsdale, 203 in DuPage County, 211 in suburban Cook County, 215 in La Grange Park, 219 in Clarendon Hills, 223 in Western Springs and 227 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,114,036, a hike of 0.6 percent, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 33,568.

Nationally, 80.8 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, an increase of 0.4 percent in the last week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 988,589 people have died from the virus in the United States.