Elmhurst's Virus Caseload Drops Again: County

ELMHURST, IL – Elmhurst saw another drop in coronavirus cases in the last week, according to the DuPage County Health Department.

As of Sunday, the city had seen 9,412 cases since the beginning of the pandemic, up 30 from a week before. That's lower than the previous week's 49. 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 93. 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 201 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 172 in Darien, 183 in Hinsdale, 193 in DuPage County, 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.