Biggest Virus Hike In Year In Clarendon Hills: Agencies

HINSDALE, IL — Hinsdale and Clarendon Hills experienced big increases in the number of new coronavirus cases in the last week, according to county agencies.

As of Sunday, Hinsdale had 2,061 coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, up 47 in the last week. The week before last, the village experienced 23 new cases. Two weeks ago, the weekly number was 47, the highest number since January.

Meanwhile, Clarendon Hills reached 1,107 coronavirus cases, up 42 in the last week. That was the highest weekly total since December 2020. The week before last, it recorded nine new cases.

Hinsdale saw no more coronavirus deaths in the last week, with the total at 62 since the pandemic's beginning, according to county agencies. Clarendon Hills' number of deaths stayed the same in the last week, at 13.

Here is the growth in coronavirus case numbers in Hinsdale and Clarendon Hills:

As of Sunday, Elmhurst had 121 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 103 in Darien, 117 in Hinsdale and DuPage County, 120 in La Grange Park, 126 in Clarendon Hills, 127 in suburban Cook County, 128 in La Grange and 130 in Western Springs.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 1,835,076, a 2.9 percent increase from the previous week, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 26,535.

Nationally, 48.9 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, a 2.1 percent increase from the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 784,893 people have died from the virus in the United States.