DuPage County reports 138 COVID-19 cases Monday, no deaths, 14.32% of population fully vaccinated

The DuPage County Health Department on Monday reported 138 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 in the county, with no deaths.

The county now has seen a total of 80,097 coronavirus cases including 1,283 deaths, according to the health department. The recovery rate among DuPage County cases as of March 16 was 98.3%.

DuPage County has administered 362,356 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. A total of 132,991 people, or 14.32% of the total population, have been fully vaccinated.

The West Suburban region (DuPage and Kane counties) has seen 61 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 4% and DuPage County stayed flat at 4.4%.

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

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 1,220 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 22 additional deaths Monday, and a total of 4,747,845 COVID-19 vaccines have been administered.

By town, Wheaton has had 4,239 total cases, Glen Ellyn 2,996, Lombard 4,075, Villa Park 2,440, Hinsdale 1,365, Westmont 2,019, Darien 1,708, Woodridge 2,537, Downers Grove 4,132, Elmhurst 4,149, Warrenville 1,240 and Winfield 1,046. Addison has had 4,660 confirmed cases, Naperville 7,437, Carol Stream 4,234 and West Chicago 4,216.

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.

Joshua  Welge

Joshua Welge

I am the Sports Editor for Kendall County Newspapers, the Kane County Chronicle and Suburban Life Media, covering primarily sports in Kendall, Kane, DuPage and western Cook counties. I've been covering high school sports for 24 years. I also assist with our news coverage.