DuPage County reports 239 COVID-19 cases Monday, 2 deaths, region’s positivity rate drops to 8.7%

The DuPage County Health Department on Monday reported 239 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 in the county, with 2 deaths: 1 woman in her 60s and 1 woman in her 90s.

The county now has seen a total of 65,630 coronavirus cases including 1,059 deaths, according to the health department. The recovery rate among DuPage County cases as of Jan. 12 was 98.0%.

DuPage County has administered 43,159 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, with 11,787 people, or 1.27% of the total population fully vaccinated. The county has the highest rate in the state.

The West Suburban region (DuPage and Kane counties) has seen 11 consecutive days under 12%. The region’s positivity rate decreased to 8.7%. Currently, 19% of medical/surgical beds are available and 31% of ICU beds.

The region has 11 consecutive days over the 20% threshold for ICU bed availability, and two consecutive days under the 20% threshold for medical/surgical bed availability. The region needs to have three consecutive days over the 20% threshold for both ICU and medical/surgical beds to move to Tier 2 of the state’s mitigations.

Within this region, Kane County’s seven-day positivity average is at 9.7%, and DuPage County is at 8.2%.

Hospitalizations have decreased seven out of the past 10 days in this region.

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 3,385 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 50 additional deaths Monday, and a total of 495,563 COVID-19 vaccines have been administered.

The seven-day rolling average of Illinois’ positivity rate decreased from 6.1% to 5.9%.

By town, Wheaton has had 3,509 total cases, Glen Ellyn 2,482, Lombard 3,424, Villa Park 2,043, Hinsdale 1,041, Westmont 1,660, Darien 1,345, Woodridge 2,065, Downers Grove 3,090, Elmhurst 3,392, Warrenville 1,053 and Winfield 839. Addison has had 4,080 confirmed cases, Naperville 5,540, Carol Stream 3,578 and West Chicago 3,624.

The health department provides further information on its data dashboard for COVID-19-related hospitalizations, deaths, lab positivity and outbreak-associated counts by municipality. This additional information replaces the information that was previously provided daily in this format.

Information is also available for COVID-19 cases and deaths among DuPage County residents by race, ethnicity, severity, long-term care facility outcomes, underlying medical conditions and doubling time. Visit the DuPage County COVID-19 Dashboard at www.dupagehealth.org/covid19data.

Individual long-term care facility outbreak updates are provided on the Illinois Department of Public Health website.