724 Deaths In Kane County Since Pandemic’s Start 1 Year Ago

KANE COUNTY, IL — Kane County recorded its first case of the coronavirus on March 10, 2020. One year later, the county’s case total stands at 51,353, and 724 residents have died after contracting the coronavirus.

Kane County is averaging its lowest number of new coronavirus cases in five months, but that recent downtown has been accompanied by a sharp increase in the county’s positivity rate, public health data shows.

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The seven-day rolling average of new cases in Kane County reached 67.7 Tuesday, its lowest mark since Oct. 5, while the 38 new cases reported Sunday were the fewest in a single day since Sept. 13, according to statistics from the Illinois Department of Public Health.

Kane County’s positivity rate dropped to 3.7 percent on Feb. 27, its second-lowest mark since the IDPH started publishing that data in June. That measure climbed to 5 percent just three days later. Kane County’s positivity rate stood at 4.8 percent on Saturday, the state’s data shows.

The positivity rate in Region 8 — made up of Kane and DuPage counties — dropped to 3.5 percent last week, before rising to 4.7 percent Saturday. The region's positivity rate peaked at 16 percent on Nov. 13.

Public health data shows 724 Kane County residents have died from COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, with 334 of those deaths linked to long-term-care facilities.

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