Elmhurst Virus Caseload High, But Falling: County

ELMHURST, IL — Elmhurst's coronavirus caseload remains high, but it is falling, according to the DuPage County Health Department.

As of Sunday, the city had seen 8,299 cases since the beginning of the pandemic, up 359 from a week before. That's lower than the previous week's 559. The city hit a weekly record of 599 earlier this month. In the pandemic's surge in late 2020, weekly coronavirus cases reached a high of 248 that November.

The number of coronavirus-related deaths in Elmhurst increased by three in the last week, to 78. 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 178 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 145 in Darien, 162 in Hinsdale, 169 in DuPage County, 177 in Clarendon Hills, 186 in La Grange Park, 188 in suburban Cook County, 189 in Western Springs and 194 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 2,773,362, an 7.1 percent increase from the previous week, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 29,845.

Nationally, 70.2 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, a 7.1 percent increase from the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 862,494 people have died from the virus in the United States.