DuPage County reports 127 COVID-19 cases Wednesday, 3 deaths, 2.97% of population fully vaccinated

The DuPage County Health Department on Wednesday reported 127 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 in the county, with 3 deaths: 1 woman in her 70s and 2 men in their 70s.

The county now has seen a total of 69,988 coronavirus cases including 1,138 deaths, according to the health department. The recovery rate among DuPage County cases as of Jan. 26 was 98.1%.

DuPage County has administered 104,670 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. A total of 27,600 residents, or 2.97% of the population, have been fully vaccinated.

The West Suburban region (DuPage and Kane counties) has seen nine consecutive days at or under 6.5%. The region’s positivity rate stayed the same at 4.9%. Currently, 28% of ICU beds are available.

The region has 59 consecutive days over the 20% threshold for ICU bed availability.

Within this region, Kane County’s seven-day positivity average is at 5.8% and DuPage County is at 4.4%.

Hospitalizations have decreased or remained stable for 10 out of the last 10 days in this region.

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 2,825 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 53 additional deaths Wednesday, and a total of 1,480,079 COVID-19 vaccines have been administered.

By town, Wheaton has had 3,763 total cases, Glen Ellyn 2,671, Lombard 3,659, Villa Park 2,200, Hinsdale 1,146, Westmont 1,775, Darien 1,452, Woodridge 2,181, Downers Grove 3,332, Elmhurst 3,591, Warrenville 1,103 and Winfield 907. Addison has had 4,273 confirmed cases, Naperville 5,977, Carol Stream 3,761 and West Chicago 3,841.

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.