January 31, 2021

DOH reports 1,282 new COVID-19 cases, 35 deaths over the weekend

The state Department of Health reported 1,282 cases of COVID-19 and 35 additional deaths related to disease this weekend. DOH reported 530 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday after reporting 752 cases on Saturday. The department reported 18 additional deaths on Sunday and 17 additional deaths on Saturday. The number of those hospitalized for COVID-19 […]

Matthew Reichbach

The state Department of Health reported 1,282 cases of COVID-19 and 35 additional deaths related to disease this weekend.

DOH reported 530 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday after reporting 752 cases on Saturday. The department reported 18 additional deaths on Sunday and 17 additional deaths on Saturday.

The number of those hospitalized for COVID-19 reached 479 on Friday, 59 fewer than reported on Friday. This could include those from other states who are hospitalized in New Mexico, but would not include New Mexicans who are hospitalized in other states. Sundays have had lower number of those hospitalized in many weeks.

The state has identified a total of 174,064 cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic and 3,283 deaths related to the disease. DOH has designated 102,961 COVID-19 cases recovered.

DOH provided some information on each of the newly reported deaths on Saturday:

A female in her 70s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized.
A male in his 70s from Bernalillo County who was a resident of the Ladera Center in Albuquerque.
A male in his 80s from Bernalillo County who was a resident of the Sugar Hollow Assisted Living facility in Albuquerque.
A female in her 90s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Sandia View Cottonwood Assisted Living facility in Albuquerque.
A male in his 50s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 80s from Lea County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 80s from Luna County who was hospitalized.
A male in his 50s from McKinley County.
A male in his 90s from Rio Arriba County.
A female in her 90s from Sandoval County who was a resident of the Genesis Rio Rancho Center in Rio Rancho.
A female in her 90s from Sandoval County who was a resident of the The Retreat Healthcare facility in Rio Rancho.
A female in her 70s from San Juan County who had underlying conditions.
A female in her 80s from San Juan County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 90s from San Miguel County who had underlying conditions.
A female in her 80s from Santa Fe County who was a resident of the BeeHive Homes Santa Fe facility.
A male in his 90s from Socorro County.
A male in his 70s from Valencia County.

And Friday:

A male in his 40s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 50s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions.
A female in her 60s from Bernalillo County.
A female in her 90s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions.
A male in his 90s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions.
A female in her 70s from Chaves County who was hospitalized.
A female in her 70s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 70s from McKinley County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 60s from Roosevelt County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 50s from Sandoval County who had underlying conditions.
A male in his 70s from Sandoval County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 40s from San Juan County.
A female in her 60s from San Juan County who had underlying conditions.
A female in her 70s from San Juan County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 80s from San Juan County who was hospitalized.
A female in her 60s from Santa Fe County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 70s from Santa Fe County who was hospitalized.
A male in his 60s from Valencia County who was hospitalized and 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

The state coronavirus information page said the state has processed 2,343,455 COVID-19 tests as of Friday, 36,581 more than reported on Wednesday. The 1,282 new cases in the past two days represent 3.5 percent of the total number of cases.

DOH said seven previously reported cases have been identified as duplicates (four in Doña Ana County, one in Luna County, one in San Juan County and one in Santa Fe County), while nine previously reported cases were not lab confirmed (six in Doña Ana County, one in Bernalillo County, one in Sandoval County and one in Santa Fe County). These have been corrected.

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