Covid-19
263 new COVID-19 cases reported in Monroe County
Rochester, New York — According to officials from the Monroe County Department of Public Health, 263 new COVID-19 cases are reported on Friday.
The county is now averaging 212 new cases per day over the past week. Monroe County now has a seven-day rolling average positivity rate of 3.9%.
According to the New York State Department of Health, 200 people in the Finger Lakes region were hospitalized with the virus, and 53 are in the ICU.
County officials report COVID-19 deaths weekly on Mondays. To date, 1,406 Monroe County residents have died from COVID-19.
As of the Monroe County COVID-19 dashboard’s last local vaccination update, 464,936 county residents are fully vaccinated and 498,936 have received at least one dose of the vaccine — 78% of the county population.
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