DuPage County surpasses 70,000 COVID-19 cases with 193 new infections reported Thursday, 6 deaths

The DuPage County Health Department on Thursday reported 193 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 in the county, with 6 deaths: 1 woman in her 40s, 3 men in their 70s, 1 woman in her 80s and 1 man in his 90s.

The county now has seen a total of 70,181 coronavirus cases including 1,144 deaths, according to the health department. The recovery rate among DuPage County cases as of Jan. 26 was 98.1%.

DuPage County has administered 110,037 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. A total of 29,047 residents, or 3.13% of the population, have been fully vaccinated.

The West Suburban region (DuPage and Kane counties) has seen 10 consecutive days at or under 6.5%. The region’s positivity rate decreased to 4.7%. Currently, 27% of ICU beds are available.

The region has 60 consecutive days over the 20% threshold for ICU bed availability.

Within this region, Kane County’s seven-day positivity average is at 5.7% and DuPage County is at 4.2%.

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

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 2,838 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 102 additional deaths Thursday, and a total of 1,549,108 COVID-19 vaccines have been administered.

By town, Wheaton has had 3,767 total cases, Glen Ellyn 2,677, Lombard 3,674, Villa Park 2,203, Hinsdale 1,148, Westmont 1,779, Darien 1,457, Woodridge 2,189, Downers Grove 3,346, Elmhurst 3,598, Warrenville 1,103 and Winfield 907. Addison has had 4,280 confirmed cases, Naperville 6,006, Carol Stream 3,768 and West Chicago 3,843.

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.