Covid-19
168 new COVID-19 cases reported in Monroe County
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Rochester, New York — According to officials from the Monroe County Department of Public Health, 168 new COVID-19 cases are reported on Wednesday.
The county is now averaging 118 new cases per day over the past week, escalating from a “substantial” to a “high” risk zone according to standards set by the Centers for Disease Control. The CDC considers anything over 100 cases per 100,000 people on a 7-day average to be “high” risk.
Monroe County now has a seven-day rolling average positivity rate of 4.5%.
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County officials say COVID-19 deaths will be reported weekly on Mondays. To date, 1,351 Monroe County residents have died from COVID-19.
According to the New York State Department of Health, 78 people in the Finger Lakes region were hospitalized with the virus, and 23 are in the ICU.
As of the Monroe County COVID-19 dashboard’s last local vaccination update Monday, 438,716 county residents are fully vaccinated and 465,057 have received at least one dose of the vaccine — 62.6% of the county population.
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