Monroe County is reporting 187 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, down from the 315 new cases reported on Monday.
Tuesday's report shows that the seven-day rolling average positivity rate is 4.63%, down slightly from Monday’s rate of 4.67%.
The seven-day rolling average of new cases is 257 per day. There were no new deaths, the total is 309 to date.
There are 206 people in the Finger Lakes region hospitalized with the virus, 40 of them in the ICU.
The numbers released by New York state on Tuesday show that the COVID-19 positivity rate in the ‘yellow zone’ in Monroe County was 3.68% on Monday down from 4.77% on Sunday.
The yellow zone includes the city of Rochester and several towns, and was set up by the state to try and bring the infection rate down through additional restrictions and testing.
The infection rate for the Finger Lakes region as of Monday was 3.7% down from 4.3% over the weekend.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says that the number of positive cases statewide and across the nation continue to rise.
In New York state, 2,124 patients are hospitalized, and 408 are in ICU. There were 29 new deaths across the state on Monday, and the total number of deaths to date is 26,189.
Speaking on Tuesday at a virtual Rochester Rotary Club meeting, Monroe County Health Commissioner Dr. Michael Mendoza said that he does not advocate for another general lockdown, as was experienced previously in the pandemic.
Mendoza said that we're at a different point now, and there wasn't COVID fatigue back in the spring.
"I don't know if the community has the same type of appetite for a lockdown that it did in March or April, nd rightfully so," Mendoza said. "We've been down this road now for nine months and a very valid question is if that worked then why and where we are now?"
Mendoza predicts that another curve will need to be flattened for Monroe County in terms of bringing down the COVID-19 numbers, but he hopes the lessons learned from the previous curve means drastic measures will not need to be taken.
Here is the age demographic breakdown of the latest daily COVID-19 cases in Monroe County.
