January 25, 2021

State reports just 494 new COVID-19 cases, lowest one-day total since October

The state Department of Health reported 494 new cases of COVID-19 and 12 related deaths on Monday. This was the lowest one-day total of newly reported cases since Oct. 18. Mondays typically have lower test counts than other days, though the total number of reported cases between Sunday and Monday was not significantly lower than […]

Matthew Reichbach

The state Department of Health reported 494 new cases of COVID-19 and 12 related deaths on Monday.

This was the lowest one-day total of newly reported cases since Oct. 18. Mondays typically have lower test counts than other days, though the total number of reported cases between Sunday and Monday was not significantly lower than normal.

Bernalillo County had the most new cases reported on Monday with 143 cases. Doña Ana County had the next-most number of cases with 68.

The state was unable to provide a number of hospitalizations for the second consecutive day because of a disruption in reporting. The state typically receives the information from hospitals each morning.

The state has identified a total of 169,696 cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic and 3,157 deaths related to the disease. DOH has designated 95,848 COVID-19 cases recovered.

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

A female in her 70s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized.
A male in his 90s from Curry County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Wheatfields Senior Living Community facility in Clovis.
A male in his 60s from Doña Ana County who had underlying conditions.
A male in his 70s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized.
A male in his 80s from Lea County who had underlying conditions.
A female in her 50s from Luna County who was hospitalized.
A male in his 60s from Mora County who was hospitalized.
A female in her 70s from Otero County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 50s from Sandoval County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 70s from San Juan County who had underlying conditions.
A male in his 80s from San Juan County who was a resident of the Bloomfield Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
A male in his 70s from Santa Fe County who was hospitalized.

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 2,255,066 COVID-19 cases as of Monday, an increase of 9,958 tests since Sunday. The 494 new cases represented 4.96 percent of the total tests.

DOH said three previously reported cases were identified as duplicates (one in each of Grant, McKinley and Rio Arriba counties). These have now been corrected.

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