November 6, 2020

NM breaks another daily COVID-19 record, with 1,287 cases

State health officials reported another record-breaking number of cases, 1,287 newly reported cases on Friday, and six additional deaths related to COVID-19. DOH has reported 114 new deaths in the last seven days. The 1,287 new cases was over 100 more than the previous one-day record, which was 1,141 confirmed cases on Nov. 3. All […]

Matthew Reichbach

State health officials reported another record-breaking number of cases, 1,287 newly reported cases on Friday, and six additional deaths related to COVID-19.

DOH has reported 114 new deaths in the last seven days.

The 1,287 new cases was over 100 more than the previous one-day record, which was 1,141 confirmed cases on Nov. 3. All five of the days the state has reported more than 1,000 cases have come since Oct. 29.

More than a quarter of the new cases, 342, were from Bernalillo County, and another 262 came from Doña Ana County.

DOH reported 96 new cases from Santa Fe County, 67 from Sandoval County and 66 from Valencia County. In all, DOH reported at least one new case in 29 of the state’s 33 counties.

The department also reported 53 new cases among inmates held by the state Department of Corrections, including 48 at the Roswell Correctional Center.

Hospitalizations also once again hit a new high, with 402 individuals hospitalized for COVID-19, two more than reported on Thursday. 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 this week showed.

As of Friday, 77 percent of general and 77 percent of ICU beds were full. This included hospitalizations for all reasons, not just COVID-19.

DOH reported some details from each of the six newly reported deaths related to COVID-19.

A male in his 60s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized.
A second male in his 60s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and was a resident of the Princeton Place facility in Albuquerque.
A female in her 60s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 40s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized.
A male in his 80s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 50s from Luna County who was hospitalized.

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 52,394 cases and 1,088 deaths related to the disease.

Of the confirmed cases, 22,811 are designated as recovered by DOH.

Gating criteria

The seven-day rolling average of COVID-19 tests per day was at 10,865 as of Nov. 5, more than twice the state’s goal of at least 5,000 daily tests.

The seven-day rolling average of test positivity rate was 8.7 percent as of Nov. 5. A lower test positivity rate is the preferred outcome, because that means fewer cases are being found.

The spread rate, or the number of people, on average, to whom each person with COVID-19 will spread the disease dropped to 1.09 as of Nov. 5, near the state’s goal of 1.05 or lower. The spread rate was highest in the northwestern region, at 1.25.

The daily number of cases, which lags because of the length it takes some state labs to process and report results, was 793 as of Oct. 30, well above the state’s goal of 168 or fewer.

Testing details

The state coronavirus information page said that 1,238,575 tests have been processed as of Friday, an increase of 8,370 tests since Thursday.

The 1,287 new positive cases represented 15.38 percent of all tests with results posted on Friday.

DOH provided the total number of newly reported cases by county.

342 new cases in Bernalillo County
38 new cases in Chaves County
10 new cases in Cibola County
3 new cases in Colfax County
51 new cases in Curry County
262 new cases in Doña Ana County
29 new cases in Eddy County
4 new cases in Grant County
3 new cases in Guadalupe County
1 new case in Hidalgo County
38 new cases in Lea County
9 new cases in Lincoln County
2 new cases in Los Alamos County
37 new cases in Luna County
25 new cases in McKinley County
1 new case in Mora County
24 new cases in Otero County
2 new cases in Quay County
28 new cases in Rio Arriba County
26 new cases in Roosevelt County
67 new cases in Sandoval County
34 new cases in San Juan County
7 new cases in San Miguel County
96 new cases in Santa Fe County
4 new cases in Sierra County
14 new cases in Socorro County
6 new cases in Taos County
5 new cases in Torrance County
66 new cases in Valencia County
4 new cases among New Mexico Corrections Department inmates at the Central New Mexico Correctional Facility in Valencia County
1 new case among New Mexico Corrections Department inmates at the Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe County
48 new cases among New Mexico Corrections Department inmates at the Roswell Correctional Center

DOH reported the total number of cases by county, including Friday’s cases, as well.

The department identified three previously reported cases as duplicates (two in Doña Ana County and one in Santa Fe County), which have been corrected and removed from the totals.

Bernalillo County: 13,170
Catron County: 10
Chaves County: 2,414
Cibola County: 768
Colfax County: 52
Curry County: 1,850
De Baca County: 3
Doña Ana County: 7,887
Eddy County: 1,734
Grant County: 227
Guadalupe County: 52
Harding County: 1
Hidalgo County: 130
Lea County: 2,438
Lincoln County: 421
Los Alamos County: 62
Luna County: 1,338
McKinley County: 4,911
Mora County: 17
Otero County: 645
Quay County: 119
Rio Arriba County: 616
Roosevelt County: 579
Sandoval County: 2,340
San Juan County: 4,025
San Miguel County: 221
Santa Fe County: 2,244
Sierra County: 151
Socorro County: 310
Taos County: 311
Torrance County: 128
Union County: 46
Valencia County: 1,238

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: 399
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: 159
Guadalupe County Correctional Facility: 1
Lea County Correctional Facility: 113
Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility in Union County: 10
Northwest New Mexico Correctional Center in Cibola County: 8
Otero County Prison Facility: 472
Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe County: 61
Roswell Correctional Center: 70
Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility in Doña Ana County: 55
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 Thursday.