106 New COVID-19 Cases Reported In Last Week In Arlington Heights

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL — After nearly four months of declining numbers, Arlington Heights is continuing to trend in the wrong direction with coronavirus cases on the rise. The number of new cases in Arlington Heights increased by 148 percent over the last two weeks, according to the Cook County Department of Public Health, though that number is down slightly from the prior 14 days (239 percent increase from July 19-Aug. 2).

In all, Arlington Heights has seen 6,894 confirmed COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic. There were 106 new cases reported in the last week, compared to 32 new cases for the week of July 26-Aug. 2.

Since the first death was recorded on April 8, 2020, 132 Arlington Heights residents have died from the coronavirus. The last two deaths came on June 7 and June 9.

In Arlington Heights, 49,039 people have completed their vaccine series, which is 65.3 percent of the population. It marks an increase of 527 fully vaccinated people since Aug. 2, according to the CCDPH.

There have been 257,200 coronavirus cases in Cook County (excluding Chicago, Evanston, Oak Park, Skokie, and Stickney Township) since the start of the pandemic, as of Monday. There have been 4,505 deaths. The community transmission level was upgraded to substantial from moderate in the last seven days, according to the Cook County health officials.

For the week ending Aug. 6, Illinois saw 16,742 new coronavirus cases, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. In addition, 64 more Illinoisans have died from COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus, and 1,200 are hospitalized, including 246 in intensive care and 121 on ventilators.

More than 75 percent of Illinois adults have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, and more than 59 percent of Illinois adults are fully vaccinated, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

While vaccinated individuals have reported some mostly mild breakthrough cases, almost all hospitalizations and deaths have been among the unvaccinated, health officials said.

Two months after Illinois declared that masks are no longer needed "in most settings" for vaccinated people, surging coronavirus cases nationwide have prompted the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to urge residents — even those who are vaccinated — to mask up indoors once more in areas with substantial and high transmission of COVID-19.

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