DuPage County reports 246 COVID-19 cases, no deaths, region’s positivity rate decreases to 6.8%

The DuPage County Health Department on Saturday reported 246 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 in the county, with no deaths.

The county now has seen a total of 86,177 coronavirus cases including 1,312 deaths, according to the health department. The recovery rate among DuPage County cases as of April 13 was 98.3%.

DuPage County has administered 651,243 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. A total of 258,723 people, or 27.86% of the population, have been totally vaccinated.

The West Suburban region (DuPage and Kane counties) has seen 87 consecutive days below 8%. The region’s positivity rate decreased to 6.8%. Currently, 23% of ICU beds are available.

Within this region, Kane County’s seven-day positivity average went down to 8.0%, and DuPage County’s decreased to 6.2%.

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

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 3,194 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 23 additional deaths on Saturday, and a total of 7,939,304 COVID-19 vaccines have been administered.

For Thursday, the state reported 166,885 shots being 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.

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.