DuPage County reports 69 new COVID-19 cases Thursday, no deaths

The DuPage County Health Department on Thursday reported 69 new cases of COVID-19 in the county, with no deaths.

The county now has seen a total of 16,353 coronavirus cases including 546 deaths, according to the health department. The recovery rate among DuPage County cases as of September 8 was 95.3%.

The West Suburban region (DuPage and Kane counties) has seen three days of positivity increases and three days of hospital admission increases. The region's positivity rate decreased to 5.4%. Currently, 36% of medical/surgical beds are available and 44% of ICU beds.

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 2,056 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 25 additional deaths Thursday.

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.