Covid-19
174 new COVID-19 cases in Monroe County
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Rochester, New York — According to officials from the Monroe County Department of Public Health, 174 new COVID-19 cases are reported on Tuesday.
The county is now averaging 174 new cases per day over the past week. Monroe County now has a seven-day rolling average positivity rate of 4.5%.
According to the New York State Department of Health, 163people in the Finger Lakes region were hospitalized with the virus, and 45 are in the ICU.
County officials report COVID-19 deaths will be weekly on Mondays. To date, 1,369 Monroe County residents have died from COVID-19, including eight new deaths in the latest update on August 30.
As of the Monroe County COVID-19 dashboard’s last local vaccination update, 449,165 county residents are fully vaccinated and 479,246 have received at least one dose of the vaccine — 63.9% of the county population.
