November 14, 2020

More than 1,100 new cases of COVID-19, 10 deaths

The New Mexico Department of Health announced 1,180 new cases of COVID-19 identified Saturday, and ten new deaths related to the disease. Bernalillo County had the most new cases with 335. DOH reported 162 new cases in Doña Ana County . Six other counties had more than 50 new cases, and eight more had more […]

Kendra Chamberlain

The New Mexico Department of Health announced 1,180 new cases of COVID-19 identified Saturday, and ten new deaths related to the disease.

Bernalillo County had the most new cases with 335. DOH reported 162 new cases in Doña Ana County . Six other counties had more than 50 new cases, and eight more had more than ten new cases. The state Department of Health also reported 39 new cases of the disease among inmates being held by the New Mexico Corrections Department.

DOH provided a few details about each of the ten deaths reported Saturday:

A female in her 80s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Grace Adult Care Home in Albuquerque.
A male in his 30s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized.
A male in his 50s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 70s from Doña Ana County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Casa de Oro Center in Las Cruces.
A female in her 80s from Doña Ana County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Casa de Oro Center in Las Cruces.
A second female in her 80s from Doña Ana County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Casa de Oro Center in Las Cruces.
A male in his 90s from Doña Ana County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Casa de Oro Center in Las Cruces.
A male in his 80s from Grant County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 50s from Roosevelt County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 80s from Sandoval County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of The Retreat Gardens facility in Rio Rancho.

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. Some of those who died had multiple comorbidities.

DOH has now found 63,171 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 1,208 deaths related to the disease. There are currently 480 individuals hospitalized in the state with COVID-19, an increase of 25 since Friday.

Of the confirmed cases, DOH has designated 24,788 cases as recovered.

The New Mexico Environment Department’s Rapid Response COVID-19 Watchlist now has 236 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. So far, 12 workplaces have been closed by NMED, and four of which were closed on Friday.

Testing details

The state coronavirus information page said there have been 1,360,452 tests processed as of Saturday.

The new cases by county are:

335 new cases in Bernalillo County
61 new cases in Chaves County
31 new cases in Cibola County
3 new cases in Colfax County
46 new cases in Curry County
1 new case in De Baca County
162 new cases in Doña Ana County
23 new cases in Eddy County
7 new cases in Grant County
1 new case in Hidalgo County
60 new cases in Lea County
8 new cases in Lincoln County
1 new case in Los Alamos County
23 new cases in Luna County
53 new cases in McKinley County
6 new cases in Otero County
8 new cases in Quay County
22 new cases in Rio Arriba County
13 new cases in Roosevelt County
63 new cases in Sandoval County
39 new cases in San Juan County
6 new cases in San Miguel County
56 new cases in Santa Fe County
6 new cases in Sierra County
13 new cases in Socorro County
27 new cases in Taos County
6 new cases in Torrance County
2 new cases in Union County
59 new cases in Valencia County
1 new case among New Mexico Corrections Department inmates at the Northwest New Mexico Correctional Center in Cibola County
2 new cases among New Mexico Corrections Department inmates at the Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe County
36 new cases among New Mexico Corrections Department inmates at the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility in Doña Ana County

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

Three previously reported cases were identified as duplicates (two in Bernalillo County and one in Doña Ana County); nine previously reported cases were not lab confirmed (two in Bernalillo County, two in Doña Ana County, two in lea County, one in Luna County, one in Sandoval County and one in Santa Fe County); and three other previously reported cases were determined to be out-of-state residents (two in Doña Ana County and one in Lea County) – these have now been corrected. One previously reported case in Bernalillo County was determined to be among Corrections Department inmates at the Central New Mexico Correctional Center in Valencia County, and another previously reported case in Cibola County was determined to be among Corrections Department inmates at the Northwest New Mexico Correctional Center in Cibola County.

The corrected county totals are: