Elmhurst Sees Further Virus Rate Drop: County

ELMHURST, IL — Elmhurst's rate of new coronavirus cases dropped further last week, according to the DuPage County Health Department.

As of Sunday, the city had 4,346 cases, an increase of 29 cases from the week before, or a 0.7 percent hike. The previous week, it was 1 percent.

The number of those who have recovered is unavailable.

As of Sunday, the number of coronavirus-related deaths in Elmhurst stayed the same in the last week, at 67. The mortality rate among those locally with the coronavirus is 1.6 percent.

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

Elmhurst's rate of increase of 0.7 percent was the same as DuPage County's hike in the last week. Elmhurst makes up 5.2 percent of the county's population and 5.2 percent of the county's coronavirus caseload.

As of Sunday, Elmhurst had 93 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 80.3 in Darien, 84.1 in La Grange Park, 90.1 in DuPage County, 91.7 in Hinsdale, 91.8 in Western Springs, 98.8 in Clarendon Hills, 99.9 in suburban Cook County, 102.7 in Burr Ridge and 116.2 in La Grange (including unincorporated La Grange Highlands).

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 1,363,507, up 0.7 percent from a week earlier. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 22,369.

Nationally, 32.7 million people have caught the virus, up 0.7 percent from the week before. A total of 581,573 people have died from the virus in the United States.

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