DuPage County reports 112 COVID-19 cases Wednesday, 2 deaths, region’s positivity rate decreases to 3.8%

The DuPage County Health Department on Wednesday reported 112 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 in the county, with 2 deaths: a man in his 60s and a man in his 80s.

The county now has seen a total of 71,588 coronavirus cases including 1,190 deaths, according to the health department. The recovery rate among DuPage County cases as of Feb. 9 was 98.2%.

DuPage County has administered 164,331 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, over one in seven DuPage County residents. A total of 47,391 people, or 5.10% of the population, have been fully vaccinated.

The West Suburban region (DuPage and Kane counties) has seen 35 consecutive days under 8%. The region’s positivity rate decreased to 3.8%. Currently, 31% of ICU beds are available.

The region has 73 consecutive days over the 20% threshold for ICU bed availability.

Within this region, Kane County’s seven-day positivity average is at 4.1%, and DuPage County is at 3.7%.

Hospitalizations have decreased 10 out of the past 10 days in this region.

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 2,022 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 44 additional deaths Wednesday, and a total of 2,310,929 COVID-19 vaccines have been administered.

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.