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Eight new COVID cases reported, 12 people remain hospitalized

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Press release:

We can’t stress enough the importance to limit time with non-household members. Continue to do your best to limit the spread of COVID-19 and the flu by frequently washing/sanitizing your hands, wear a mask/face-covering over your mouth and nose when out in public and keep at least 6 feet from non-household members. If you are not feeling well, please stay home and contact your primary care provider for guidance.

Total Positives – are 1,041 (for Genesee County) through 12 p.m. today, however, due to the complexity of the case investigation / contact tracing the 960 reported below for Genesee County, and the charts represent the total cases investigated as of this report.

In order to provide accurate numbers, case investigations include contacting the individuals, of which some are not county residents...this will show discrepancies between the local numbers and the state numbers. The numbers reported are those cases we have accurate data and have had contact with the individual and all their subsequent contacts.

To review the raw positive data for each of the counties click this link.  

Our goal is to make sure the data provided to our communities is as accurate as possible.

  • Genesee County received eight new positive cases of COVID-19.
    • The new positive cases reside in Alabama, Alexander, Batavia, Bergen, Bethany, Byron, Darien, Elba, Le Roy, Oakfield, Pavilion, Pembroke and Stafford.
    • The individuals are in their 0-19s, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s 70s, and 80s.
    • One hundred and twenty six 126 of the previous positive individuals have recovered and have been removed from the isolation list.
    • Twelve of the positive individuals are hospitalized.
    • One of the individuals identified at The Grand Rehabilitation and Nursing at Batavia and one of the individuals identified at the Batavia VA Medical Center have been identified as out-of-county residents and have been removed from our facility and total count.
  • Orleans County received nine new positive cases of COVID-19.
    • The new positive cases reside Barre, Clarendon, Murray, Ridgeway and Shelby.
    • The individuals are in their 0-19s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s.
    • One of the individuals were on mandatory quarantine prior to testing positive.
    • Eleven of the previous positive individuals have recovered and have been removed from the isolation list.
    • One of the new positive cases was recovered prior to the health department receiving the test results and are included in the recovered data.
    • Six of the current positive individuals are hospitalized.

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