Low Number Of New Virus Cases In Western Springs: County

WESTERN SPRINGS, IL — For the second week in a row, Western Springs reported just one new coronavirus case, according to the Cook County Public Health Department

As of Sunday, the village had a total of 1,321 coronavirus cases, a less than 0.1 percent increase from the week before.

The number of Western Springs' virus-related deaths stayed the same in the last week, at six. The latest deaths were reported May 31, May 11 and Nov. 21, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. That's a mortality rate of less than 1 percent. All the local deaths have been those who were 53 or older, according to the county medical examiner.

Here is how Western Springs' coronavirus cases have accumulated since the pandemic's beginning:

As of Sunday, Western Springs had 98.9 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 81.7 in Darien, 88.2 in La Grange Park, 91.7 in DuPage County, 93.6 in Hinsdale, 94.3 in Elmhurst, 100 in Clarendon Hills, 102.1 in suburban Cook County, 104.4 in Burr Ridge and 120.8 in La Grange (including unincorporated La Grange Highlands).

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 1,388,688, up 0.1 percent from a week earlier, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 23,133.

Nationally, 33.3 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, up 0.2 percent from the week before, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 598,713 people have died from the virus in the United States.

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