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DOH: 1,434 new cases of COVID-19 and 29 deaths Thursday

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The state Department of Health reported 1,434 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday and 29 additional deaths related to the disease. Bernalillo County had the most newly reported cases on Thursday, with 344. Doña Ana County with 166 and San Juan County with 155 were the two other counties with more than 100 cases. On Thursday, the department reported 691 individuals were hospitalized for COVID-19, a decrease of 11 people since Wednesday. 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.

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DOH: 1,033 new cases of COVID-19 and 17 deaths Sunday

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The state Department of Health reported 1,033 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday and 17 additional deaths related to the disease. Bernalillo County had the most newly reported cases on Sunday, with 345. Doña Ana County, with 131, was the only other county with more than 100 cases. On Sunday, the department reported 716 individuals were hospitalized for COVID-19, an increase of 54 people since 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.

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DOH: 1,252 additional COVID-19 cases and 32 deaths Saturday

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Hed: DOH: 1,252 additional COVID-19 cases and 32 deaths Saturday

The New Mexico Department of Health reported 1,252 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday and 32 additional deaths related to the disease. Bernalillo County had the most newly reported cases on Saturday, with 268. Three other counties had 100 or more new cases: San Juan County with 174; Doña Ana County with 117 and Eddy County with 104. On Saturday, the department reported 662 individuals were hospitalized for COVID-19, a decrease of 129 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.

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DOH: 1,286 new cases of COVID-19 and 25 additional deaths Friday

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The state Department of Health reported 1,286 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday and 25 additional deaths related to the disease. Bernalillo County had the most newly reported cases on Friday, with 316. Three other counties had 100 or more new cases: San Juan County with 155; Sandoval County with 108; Doña Ana County with 160. On Friday, the department reported 791 individuals were hospitalized for COVID-19, an decrease of 12 people since Thursday. 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.

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Good news and bad news for the state’s COVID-19 numbers Saturday

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New Mexico Department of Health announced good news – no county had more than 19 reported cases Saturday – and bad news – there were eight additional related deaths to COVID-19. Overall, the state gained 146 additional cases with Bernalillo County reporting the highest number of new cases – 19. But Bernalillo County’s population is over 679,000 people, by far the most in the state. The other counties reporting double digit numbers Saturday are Doña Ana and McKinley both with 17; Lea with 14 and Eddy with 12. The eight deaths attributed to COVID-19 related mortality all had underlying conditions, according to DOH.

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177 new cases and two new deaths related to COVID-19

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The state Department of Health announced 177 additional cases of COVID-19 and two related deaths Thursday. The 177 confirmed cases represent 3.1 percent of the 5,668 tests reported since Wednesday. The state of New Mexico seeks to keep the positivity rate, or the percentage of positive tests out of the total number of tests, below five percent. The counties that continue to have double digit numbers are: Bernalillo with 38; Dona Ana with 21; Chaves with 19; Eddy with 15; Lea with 14; McKinley with 10. Lincoln County also had double digit numbers with 14 and Santa Fe County climbed again to double digit numbers Thursday with 12. 

There are currently 128 individuals hospitalized in New Mexico for COVID-19 and 9,980 COVID-19 cases designated as having recovered, according to DOH.

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With 42 new cases of COVID-19 in Bernalillo County, the county’s total grows to over 5,000

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The state announced during Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s press conference Thursday 212 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 and two additional deaths. The 42 new cases in Bernalillo County pushes the total number of cases in the most populous county in the state to more than 5,000 cases. Doña Ana County continues to report double digit numbers of cases – 36. Five other counties had double-digit numbers of tests: Lea with 23; Chaves with 16; San Juan, Curry and Valencia with 10 each. The additional cases Thursday brings the total number of cases of the disease in the state to 21,773.

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Numbers of new cases of COVID-19 continue to decline with 210 Saturday but nine deaths

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The state of New Mexico started the month of August with 210 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 Saturday and nine deaths. The numbers of cases have started to trend downward after nearly a month of increasing. The number of cases Friday was 225, which was the lowest the number had been since July 5. But the nine related deaths on Saturday bring the mortality total to 651. The state’s Department of Health released the following details about the deceased:

A male in his 70s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Princeton Place facility in Albuquerque.A female in her 80s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.

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319 cases of COVID-19 with Bernalillo County reporting triple digits for third straight day

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New Mexico has 319 new cases of COVID-19 with a third of those coming from Bernalillo County on Friday, according to the state Department of Health. This is the third straight day Bernalillo County has reported triple digits and the 16th straight day in a row that the state has had more than 200 cases. 

DOH reported 111 cases in Bernalillo County. Counties with double digit numbers are: Rio Arriba with 37; Doña Ana with 36; San Juan with 26; Valencia with 25 and McKinley with 16. The newly confirmed cases represented 3.5 percent of the 8,930 tests processed since Thursday. The state has processed 452,298 tests total, according to the state’s coronavirus information website.

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15 straight days of more than 200 new cases in New Mexico of COVID-19

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For the 15th day in a row, the New Mexico Department of Health reports more than 200 cases of COVID-19 and for the second day in a row, Bernalillo County reports triple digit new cases. The DOH reported 300 cases Thursday. Of that, 103 were in Bernalillo County. The other counties that continue to show double digit increases on a daily basis are Doña Ana with 39; McKinley with 20; San Juan with 16 and Sandoval with 15. Counties that showed a sudden uptick with double digit numbers for the first time are Lea County with 23 and Valencia County with 11.  

Eddy County also reported double digit numbers, with 13, for the first time since the weekend.