January 11, 2021

933 new COVID-19 cases in NM on Monday, 15 additional deaths

The state Department of Health reported 933 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday and 15 additional deaths related to the disease. Bernalillo County had the most newly reported cases on Monday, with 261. Doña Ana County was the only other county with 100 or more cases, with 102. DOH also reported six new cases among […]

Matthew Reichbach

The state Department of Health reported 933 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday and 15 additional deaths related to the disease.

Bernalillo County had the most newly reported cases on Monday, with 261. Doña Ana County was the only other county with 100 or more cases, with 102.

DOH also reported six new cases among inmates held by the state Department of Corrections.

On Monday, the department reported 704 individuals were hospitalized for COVID-19, an increase of 22 people since Sunday. This could include those from other states who are hospitalized in New Mexico, but would not include New Mexicans who are hospitalized out of state.

DOH provided some information on each of the 19 newly reported deaths.

A female in her 40s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 70s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized.
A second male in his 70s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 90s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Casa Sandia facility in Albuquerque.
A female in her 50s from Chaves County who was hospitalized.
A male in his 50s from Grant County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 80s from Grant County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 70s from Lea County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A second female in her 70s from Lea County who had underlying conditions.
A male in his 60s from Sandoval 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 70s from San Miguel County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 70s from Santa Fe County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 60s who was hospitalized and was an inmate at the McKinley County Correctional Facility.
A male in his 60s who was a New Mexico Corrections Department inmate at the Northwest New Mexico Correctional Center in Cibola County.

DOH does not disclose which underlying condition any of the deceased had, only if one was present before death.

The most common underlying condition for those who died with COVID-19 was hypertension, followed by diabetes and cardiovascular disease, according to the most recently available mortality update. Some of those who died had multiple comorbidities.

DOH has now found 157,087 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and reported 2,764 deaths related to the disease.

Of the confirmed cases, 78,826 were designated as recovered by the department as of Monday, an increase of 1,095 since Sunday.

The New Mexico Environment Department’s Rapid Response COVID-19 Watchlist had 78 establishments as of Monday, 17 fewer than were listed on Sunday. These workplaces had two or more COVID-19 rapid responses in the last 14 days.

Gating criteria

The number of cases on a seven-day rolling average reached 1,223 as of Jan. 5, the last day that full numbers are available. The state uses the date of the specimen collection for its gating criteria calculator, which lags because some labs take longer to process and report test results to the state.

The positivity rate among tests also continued to rise, reaching 12.1 percent as of Jan. 7. The state’s goal is to keep this at or below 5 percent.

The number of tests increased to 11,203 on a seven-day rolling average as of Jan. 7, after the number was well over 14,000 in mid-December, and was as low as 10,140 on Dec. 31.

The spread rate, which had been below the state’s goal of 1.05 or lower, reached 1.15 as of Jan. 9. That’s the calculation of how many people each person with COVID-19 will spread the disease to; anything over 1.0 means the cases are increasing.

Testing details

The state coronavirus information page says the state has processed 2,101,155 tests as of Monday, 7,580 more than reported on Sunday.

The new positive cases represented 12.3 percent of the total newly processed tests.

DOH provided the number of newly reported cases on Monday, by county.

261 new cases in Bernalillo County
19 new cases in Chaves County
17 new cases in Cibola County
5 new cases in Colfax County
33 new cases in Curry County
102 new cases in Doña Ana County
34 new cases in Eddy County
13 new cases in Grant County
2 new cases in Guadalupe County
2 new cases in Hidalgo County
18 new cases in Lea County
20 new cases in Lincoln County
2 new cases in Los Alamos County
21 new cases in Luna County
40 new cases in McKinley County
1 new case in Mora County
40 new cases in Otero County
3 new cases in Quay County
19 new cases in Rio Arriba County
15 new cases in Roosevelt County
56 new cases in Sandoval County
69 new cases in San Juan County
6 new cases in San Miguel County
69 new cases in Santa Fe County
7 new cases in Socorro County
11 new cases in Taos County
1 new case in Torrance County
1 new case in Union County
40 new cases in Valencia County
6 new cases among New Mexico Corrections Department inmates at the Western New Mexico Correctional Facility in Cibola County

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

Three previously reported cases were identified by DOH as duplicates (two in Bernalillo County and one in Santa Fe County) One case previously reported as a resident of Otero County was determined to be among those held by federal agencies at the Otero County Prison Facility. These have been corrected.