January 24, 2021

1,494 new COVID-19 cases, 68 deaths over the weekend

State health officials reported 1,494 new cases of COVID-19 and 68 related deaths over the weekend. The state Department of Health identified 859 new cases of the disease and 38 deaths Saturday and 635 new cases and 30 deaths on Sunday. Bernalillo County had the most new cases reported over the weekend with 330 cases […]

Kendra Chamberlain

State health officials reported 1,494 new cases of COVID-19 and 68 related deaths over the weekend.

The state Department of Health identified 859 new cases of the disease and 38 deaths Saturday and 635 new cases and 30 deaths on Sunday.

Bernalillo County had the most new cases reported over the weekend with 330 cases between Saturday and Sunday. Bernalillo County, which is the state’s most populous county, was also the only county to report more than 100 cases on both Saturday and Sunday.

The state has identified a total of 169,205 cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic and 3,145 deaths related to the disease. DOH has designated 93,141 COVID-19 cases recovered.

There were 627 individuals hospitalized for COVID-19 in the state as of Saturday. 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 did not provide an update on hospitalizations on Sunday due to reporting disruptions.

DOH provided some information on each of the 68 newly reported deaths.

From the cases reported on Saturday:

A female in her 40s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and was a resident of the Albuquerque Heights Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center.
A male in his 40s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions.
A male in his 50s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized.
A second male in his 50s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions.
A female in her 60s from Bernalillo County.
A male in his 60s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized.
A female in her 70s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized.
A male in his 70s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions.
A second male in his 70s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Life Spire Assisted Living facility in Albuquerque.
A female in her 80s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Ladera Center in Albuquerque.
A male in his 80s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions.
A second male in his 80s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Odelia Healthcare (Camino Healthcare) facility in Albuquerque.
A female in her 60s from Chaves County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 80s from Chaves County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 80s from Chaves County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 30s from Cibola County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 60s from Cibola County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 90s from Cibola County who was a resident of the Good Samaritan Society facility in Grants.
A female in her 40s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized.
A male in his 40s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized.
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 had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Casa de Oro facility in Las Cruces.
A male in his 80s from Doña Ana County.
A second male in his 80s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized.
A female in her 50s from Eddy County who was hospitalized.
A female in her 60s from Eddy County who had underlying conditions.
A male in his 80s from Lea County who was hospitalized.
A female in her 80s from Los Alamos County who was hospitalized.
A male in his 80s from Luna County.
A male in his 30s from McKinley County who was hospitalized.
A male in his 70s from McKinley County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 80s from Rio Arriba County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 20s from San Juan County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 50s from San Juan County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A second female in her 50s from San Juan County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 70s from San Juan County who had underlying conditions.
A female in her 20s from Santa Fe County.
A male in his 70s from Valencia County who had underlying conditions.

The cases reported on Sunday:

A male in his 60s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A second male in his 60s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Sandia Ridge Center in Albuquerque.
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 80s from Bernalillo County.
A second female in her 80s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of the South Valley Care Center in Albuquerque.
A male in his 80s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A second male in his 80s from Bernalillo County.
A female in her 80s from Cibola County who was a resident of the Good Samaritan Society facility in Grants.
A female in her 80s from Colfax County.
A male in his 60s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 90s from Doña Ana County.
A male in his 80s from Grant County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 60s from Luna County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 30s from McKinley County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 60s from McKinley County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 60s from McKinley County who was hospitalized.
A male in his 70s from McKinley County who had underlying conditions.
A female in her 80s from Rio Arriba County.
A female in her 30s from Sandoval County who had underlying conditions.
A female in her 60s from Sandoval County who had underlying conditions.
A male in his 60s from Sandoval County who was hospitalized and was a resident of the Genesis Rio Rancho Center.
A male in his 90s from Sandoval County.
A female in her 60s from San Juan County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 70s from San Juan County who was hospitalized.
A female in her 40s from Santa Fe County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 40s from Taos County.
A male in his 90s from Taos County who was hospitalized.
A male in his 60s from Union County.
A female in her 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.

Testing details

DOH announced they had processed 2,245,108 COVID-19 cases as of Sunday, an increase of 46,258 tests since Friday.

DOH said multiple cases were identified as duplicates over the weekend (nine in Bernalillo County, two in Cibola County, one in Lea County, two in Luna County, three in Doña Ana one in McKinley County and one in Rio Arriba County) and one case in Bernalillo County was not lab-confirmed. These have now been corrected. One previously reported case in Guadalupe County was determined to be among the New Mexico Corrections Department inmates at the Guadalupe County Correctional Facility and is now reported as such.

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