January 17, 2021

1,843 new COVID-19 cases, 58 additional deaths over the weekend

The state Department of Health reported 1,843 new cases of COVID-19 this weekend and 58 additional deaths related to the disease. DOH said there were 1,092 cases and 36 deaths on Saturday and 751 new cases and 22 additional deaths on Sunday. Bernalillo County had the most newly reported cases over the weekend with 449 […]

Matthew Reichbach

The state Department of Health reported 1,843 new cases of COVID-19 this weekend and 58 additional deaths related to the disease.

DOH said there were 1,092 cases and 36 deaths on Saturday and 751 new cases and 22 additional deaths on Sunday.

Bernalillo County had the most newly reported cases over the weekend with 449 between Saturday and Sunday.

On Sunday, the department reported 612 individuals were hospitalized for COVID-19, a decrease of 58 people since Friday. 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 58 newly reported deaths.

From the cases reported on Saturday:

A female in her 40s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized.
A female in her 50s from Bernalillo County.
A female in her 60s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized.
A female in her 70s from Bernalillo County.
A male in his 70s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A second male in his 70s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Princeton Place facility in Albuquerque.
A male in his 80s from Bernalillo County.
A second male in his 80s from Bernalillo County who was a resident of the Atria Vista del Rio facility in Albuquerque.
A female in her 60s from Cibola County who was a resident of the Good Samaritan Society facility in Grants.
A female in her 80s from Doña Ana County.
A male in his 80s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized.
A female in her 90s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized.
A female in her 50s from Eddy County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 60s from Eddy County who was hospitalized.
A female in her 90s from Lea County who was a resident of the Desert Springs Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Hobbs.
A male in his 70s from Luna County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 50s from McKinley County who had underlying conditions.
A female in her 40s from San Juan County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 50s from San Juan County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 60s from San Juan County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 80s from San Juan County who was a resident of the Bloomfield Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Bloomfield.
A female in her 60s from Santa Fe County who was hospitalized.

The cases reported on Sunday:

A male in his 30s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized.
A male in his 40s from Bernalillo County.
A male in his 50s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized.
A male in his 60s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Princeton Place facility in Albuquerque.
A female in her 70s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 70s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Belen Meadows Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Belen.
A female in her 80s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions.
A second female in her 80s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions.
A male in his 80s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of The Suites Rio Vista facility in Rio Rancho.
A female in her 90s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions.
A female in her 90s from Chaves County who was a resident of the Mission Arch Center in Roswell.
A second female in her 90s from Chaves County who was a resident of the Sunset Villa Care Center in Roswell.
A male in his 80s from Doña Ana County who had underlying conditions.
A second male in his 80s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A third male in his 80s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 40s from Eddy County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 50s from Eddy County who had underlying conditions.
A female in her 60s from Luna County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 70s from Luna County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions. He was a resident of the Mimbres Memorial Nursing Home in Deming.
A male in his 60s from McKinley County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 70s from McKinley County who was hospitalized.
A female in her 80s from McKinley County.
A second female in her 80s from McKinley County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A third female in her 80s from McKinley County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 90s from McKinley County who was a resident of the Red Rocks Care Center in Gallup.
A female in her 70s from Rio Arriba County.
A male in his 80s from Rio Arriba County who had underlying conditions.
A second male in his 80s from Rio Arriba County who had underlying conditions.
A male in his 40s from San Juan County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 70s from San Juan County.
A male in his 70s from San Juan County who had underlying conditions.
A male in his 80s from San Juan County who was hospitalized.
A female in her 50s from Santa Fe County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 70s from Santa Fe County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 70s from Santa Fe County who was a resident of the Sierra Vista facility in Santa Fe County.
A male in his 80s from Valencia County who had underlying conditions.

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 163,637 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and reported 2,932 deaths related to the disease.

Of the confirmed cases, 86,110 were designated as recovered by the department as of Sunday, an increase of 2,005 since Friday.

Testing details

DOH announced they had processed 2,157,518 COVID-19 cases as of Sunday.

DOH said seven previously reported cases have been identified as duplicates (two in Cibola County, two in Santa Fe County, one in Bernalillo County, one in Quay County and one among those held by federal agencies at the Cibola County Correctional Center); three previously reported cases were not lab confirmed (one in each of Curry, Doña Ana and McKinley counties) and one case attributed to a resident of Hidalgo County was determined to be an out-of-state resident. These have been corrected.

The total number of cases per county, as of Sunday, are as follows: