Monroe County’s Department of Public Health posted another record number of new COVID-19 cases on Friday: 2,156 cases. There were 1,290 laboratory-confirmed cases and 866 picked up by home test kits.
That beat the prediction of County Executive Adam Bello on Thursday that we would see over 2,000 cases per day within a few days as the Omicron variant of COVID continues to surge across the country.
The health department says this caseload continues to reflect a backlog of reports to the testing labs that built up over the holidays.