November 10, 2020

A fifth straight day of over 1,200 new COVID-19 cases; 14 new deaths reported

The state Department of Health reported over 1,200 cases of COVID-19 again on Tuesday. The department also reported 14 additional deaths related to the disease. Tuesday was the fifth-straight day with 1,200 or more cases of COVID-19, and the sixth day in the last week with ten or more newly reported deaths. Bernalillo County once […]

Matthew Reichbach

The state Department of Health reported over 1,200 cases of COVID-19 again on Tuesday. The department also reported 14 additional deaths related to the disease.

Tuesday was the fifth-straight day with 1,200 or more cases of COVID-19, and the sixth day in the last week with ten or more newly reported deaths.

Bernalillo County once again had the most newly reported cases, with 307, followed by 222 in Doña Ana County, 100 in Sandoval County, 90 in Santa Fe County, 75 in Lea County, 65 in Chaves County, 60 in Eddy County and 51 in Curry County.

In all, the state reported at least one new case of COVID-19 in 29 of the state’s 33 counties.

DOH also reported four new cases among inmates at facilities run by the state Department of Corrections.

The number of those hospitalized for COVID-19 increased by two since Monday to 425.

This could include those from out of state who are hospitalized for COVID-19 in New Mexico, but would not include New Mexicans who are hospitalized out of state. The number of those hospitalized from out of state has been a low percentage of overall cases, the state’s hospitalization update from last week showed.

DOH provided some details on each of the 14 newly reported deaths related to COVID-19.

A male in his 40s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A second male in his 40s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 50s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 60s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized.
A second female in her 60s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 70s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 80s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 50s from Lea County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 60s from Lincoln County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 60s from Luna County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 70s from McKinley County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 70s from McKinley County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 70s from Sandoval County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 60s from Socorro County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.

The most common underlying condition for those who died with COVID-19 was cardiovascular disease, followed by diabetes and hypertension, according to the state’s latest mortality update.

DOH has now found 57,547 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 1,144 deaths related to the disease.

Of the confirmed cases, 23,736 are designated as recovered by DOH.

The New Mexico Environment Department’s Rapid Response COVID-19 Watchlist now has 177 places of employment. The list shows workplaces with two or more rapid responses for positive COVID-19 tests among employees.

If a workplace has four or more rapid responses within two weeks, the workplace will need to shut down for 14 days. No new workplaces were closed on Tuesday.

Testing details

The state coronavirus information page said there have been 1,281,951 tests processed as of Tuesday, an increase of 12,428 over Monday’s total.

The 1,266 newly reported cases represented 10.19 percent of the newly processed tests. The state aims to keep the test positivity rate at 5 percent or below.

DOH provided the number of newly reported cases by county.

307 new cases in Bernalillo County
1 new case in Catron County
65 new cases in Chaves County
22 new cases in Cibola County
4 new cases in Colfax County
51 new cases in Curry County
8 new cases in De Baca County
222 new cases in Doña Ana County
60 new cases in Eddy County
5 new cases in Grant County
3 new cases in Guadalupe County
1 new case in Hidalgo County
75 new cases in Lea County
11 new cases in Lincoln County
5 new cases in Los Alamos County
29 new cases in Luna County
35 new cases in McKinley County
31 new cases in Otero County
18 new cases in Rio Arriba County
20 new cases in Roosevelt County
100 new cases in Sandoval County
34 new cases in San Juan County
5 new cases in San Miguel County
90 new cases in Santa Fe County
1 new case in Sierra County
6 new cases in Socorro County
7 new cases in Taos County
6 new cases in Torrance County
40 new cases in Valencia County
3 new cases among New Mexico Corrections Department inmates at the Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility in Union County
1 new case among New Mexico Corrections Department inmates at the Northwest New Mexico Correctional Center in Cibola County

DOH also provided the total number of cases by county, including those reported on Tuesday.

The department identified seven previously reported cases as duplicates (four in Bernalillo County and one in each of Doña Ana, Santa Fe and Taos counties) and one case in Chaves County that was not lab confirmed. These were corrected and removed from the totals.

Two previously reported cases (one in Bernalillo County and one in Chaves County) were identified as state Corrections Department inmates at the Roswell Correctional Center, a previously reported case in Cibola County was identified as a Corrections Department inmate at the Northwest New Mexico Correctional Center and a previously reported case in Lea County was identified as a Corrections Department inmate at the Lea County Correctional Facility. All have been corrected.

Bernalillo County: 14,528
Catron County: 11
Chaves County: 2,678
Cibola County: 829
Colfax County: 69
Curry County: 2,076
De Baca County: 16
Doña Ana County: 8,655
Eddy County: 1,967
Grant County: 252
Guadalupe County: 59
Harding County: 1
Hidalgo County: 134
Lea County: 2,712
Lincoln County: 472
Los Alamos County: 75
Luna County: 1,442
McKinley County: 5,079
Mora County: 18
Otero County: 774
Quay County: 135
Rio Arriba County: 668
Roosevelt County: 648
Sandoval County: 2,639
San Juan County: 4,198
San Miguel County: 250
Santa Fe County: 2,608
Sierra County: 164
Socorro County: 336
Taos County: 366
Torrance County: 144
Union County: 47
Valencia County: 1,380

DOH reported the following numbers of COVID-19 cases among individuals held by federal agencies at the following facilities:

Cibola County Correctional Center: 348
Otero County Prison Facility: 417
Otero County Processing Center: 191
Torrance County Detention Facility: 44

DOH reported the following numbers of COVID-19 cases among individuals held by the New Mexico Corrections Department at the following facilities:

Central New Mexico Correctional Facility in Valencia County: 160
Guadalupe County Correctional Facility: 3
Lea County Correctional Facility: 113
Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility in Union County: 13
Northwest New Mexico Correctional Center in Cibola County: 11
Otero County Prison Facility: 472
Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe County: 69
Roswell Correctional Center: 215
Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility in Doña Ana County: 56
Western New Mexico Correctional Facility in Cibola County: 5

DOH has identified at least one positive COVID-19 case in residents and/or staff in the past 28 days in 85 long-term care facilities, the same number as reported on Monday.