DuPage County reports 52 COVID-19 cases Sunday, fewest single-day reported since December

The DuPage County Health Department on Sunday reported 52 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 in the county, with no deaths. It’s the fewest single-day cases reported since December 18.

The county now has seen a total of 72,737 coronavirus cases including 1,204 deaths, according to the health department. The recovery rate among DuPage County cases as of Feb. 23 was 98.2%.

DuPage County has administered 252,185 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. A total of 83,888 people, or 9.03% of the population, are fully vaccinated.

The West Suburban region (DuPage and Kane counties) has seen 46 consecutive days under 8%. The region’s positivity rate stayed stagnant at 4.5%. Currently, 30% of ICU beds are available.

The region has 84 consecutive days over the 20% threshold for ICU bed availability.

Within this region, Kane County’s seven-day positivity average is at 4.9% and DuPage County is at 4.3%.

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

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 1,068 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 14 additional deaths Sunday, and a total of 3,358,214 COVID-19 vaccines have been administered.

The state administered 98,550 vaccine doses on Saturday, bringing the seven-day average for vaccines administered to 93,183 doses.

By town, Wheaton has had 3,938 total cases, Glen Ellyn 2,776, Lombard 3,794, Villa Park 2,279, Hinsdale 1,193, Westmont 1,834, Darien 1,508, Woodridge 2,269, Downers Grove 3,529, Elmhurst 3,737, Warrenville 1,147 and Winfield 944. Addison has had 4,395 confirmed cases, Naperville 6,374, Carol Stream 3,886 and West Chicago 3,965.

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.