March 28, 2024
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Coronavirus

DeKalb County reports 15 new COVID-19 cases; region one day away from potential restrictions if positivity rate continues

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The DeKalb County Health Department on Tuesday reported 15 new cases of the novel coronavirus as the county's health region moved one day away from further mitigations.

What the restrictions will look like for the region, which includes Sauk Valley and Rockford, are not known yet but will take effect after three straight days during which the seven-day rolling positivity rate for the region exceeds 8%. It rose to 8.3% on Tuesday. The statewide rolling rate went down to 3.6%.

The Illinois Department of Public Health also began reporting daily county testing data but with a three-day lag. For Saturday, DeKalb County had a daily positivity rate of 12.2%, up from 3.6% the day before but with almost 350 fewer tests. The rolling positivity rate rose to 7.4%.

Total cases in the county rose to 1,666 and the death toll remained at 38. There were no cases reported in any of the three long-term care facilities in the county considered in outbreak mode, Oak Crest-DeKalb Area Retirement Center (nine total cases), DeKalb County Rehabilitation and Nursing Center (eight total cases), and Willow Crest Nursing Pavilion (66 total cases).

However, a fourth was added to outbreak mode, Prairie Crossing Living and Rehabilitation Center in Shabbona, with two cases in staff and one in residents.

New cases included one in residents 19 or younger, five in their 20s, two in their 30s, four in their 40s, one in their 50s, one in their 60s and one in their 70s.

In total, 280 cases have been reported among residents younger than 20, 508 in their 20s, 221 in their 30s, 210 in their 40s, 176 in their 50s, 109 in their 60s, 75 in their 70s and 87 in their 80s or older.

According to county data, the city of DeKalb reports between 876 and 880 cases. There are between 211 and 215 cases in Sycamore; 171 and 175 in Sandwich; 126 and 130 cases in Genoa; 76 and 80 cases in Cortland; 31 and 35 in Hinckley; 26 and 30 in Kingston and Kirkland; 21 and 25 cases in Malta and Somonauk; and 11 and 15 in Waterman, Maple Park and Shabbona. Esmond, Leland and Earlville each report between one and five cases.

Cases listed on the county site are for those only occurring within the county; for instance, the Maple Park numbers only count Earlville residents who reside in DeKalb County.

The IDPH lists cases and tests performed by ZIP code, while the county health department lists cases by municipality. Numbers vary between state and health departments because of data lags.

The 60115 ZIP code, including DeKalb, had 836 cases reported and 14,526 tests administered (a positivity rate of 5.8%); the 60178 ZIP code, including Sycamore, had 217 cases and 5,680 tests (3.8%); the 60548 ZIP code, including Sandwich, had 4,046 tests and 246 cases (6.1%); the 60112 ZIP code, including Cortland, had 79 cases and 1,282 tests (6.1%); the 60135 ZIP code, including Genoa, had 120 cases and 1,920 tests (6.3%); the 60145 ZIP code, including Kingston, had 27 cases and 483 tests (5.6%); the 60146 ZIP code, including Kirkland, had 34 cases and 690 tests (4.9%); the 60520 ZIP code, including Hinckley, had 31 cases and 685 tests (4.5%); the 60550 ZIP code, including Shabbona, had 14 cases and 599 tests (2.3%); the 60151 ZIP code, including parts of Maple Park in both DeKalb and Kane counties, had 45 cases and 975 tests (4.6%); and the 60556 ZIP code, including Waterman, had 12 cases and 409 tests (2.9%).

The IDPH reported 291,001 people in Illinois have tested positive for COVID-19, while 8,637 people have died statewide. The number of tests performed rose to 5,566,276. The site also lists statewide recovery rates, calculated by recovered cases divided by the sum of recovered cases and dead cases. The statewide recovery rate remained at 96%.

The county released its weekly testing and recovery data on Friday, with 1,078 total recovered since the pandemic began locally. A total of 33,814 tests have been conducted on residents.