DuPage County tops 400,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses administered as 199 new cases reported Thursday

The DuPage County Health Department on Thursday reported 199 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 in the county, with 2 deaths: 1 male in his 70s and 1 male in his 90s.

The county now has seen a total of 80,723 coronavirus cases including 1,287 deaths, according to the health department. The recovery rate among DuPage County cases as of March 16 was 98.3%.

DuPage County has administered 404,248 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. A total of 147,664 people, or 15.90% of the population, have been fully vaccinated.

The West Suburban region (DuPage and Kane counties) has seen 64 consecutive days below 8%. The region’s positivity rate increased to 4.3%. Currently, 30% of ICU beds are available.

Within this region, Kane County’s seven-day positivity average stayed flat at 3.8% and DuPage County’s increased to 4.6%.

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

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 2,190 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 35 additional deaths Thursday, and a total of 5,154,908 COVID-19 vaccines have been administered.

For Wednesday, the state administered 118,544 shots.

By town, Wheaton has had 4,288 total cases, Glen Ellyn 3,031, Lombard 4,112, Villa Park 2,455, Hinsdale 1,389, Westmont 2,038, Darien 1,726, Woodridge 2,565, Downers Grove 4,181, Elmhurst 4,209, Warrenville 1,252 and Winfield 1,059. Addison has had 4,693 confirmed cases, Naperville 7,516, Carol Stream 4,281 and West Chicago 4,229.

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.