Monroe County has surpassed 2,000 COVID-19 deaths.
The state health department website confirms 2,002 people have died of the virus since the pandemic began 2 1/2 years ago.
Nearly 1,700 of the dead were county residents.
Meantime, COVID hospitalizations have ticked up in the past few days, with 204 people now in area hospitals, 25 in intensive care.
But cases have remained steady for the past several weeks, averaging 116 per day.