UPDATE: After unveiling a new online registration system to sign-up for conronavirus vaccinations, El Paso officials on Thursday afternoon announced that additional vaccine shipments were on their way to the Borderland. A batch of 5,000 doses was headed for the El Paso health department, which will be used to vaccinate those who have signed up
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Triple-digit increases in Las Cruces’ Doña Ana County (125) and Albuquerque’s Bernallillo County (232) were among the latest confirmed Covid-19 cases reported Thursday by state health officials. New Mexico reported an additional 997 cases for the day, pushing the statewide total since the pandemic began to nearly 167,000 cases. Another 35 deaths
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WASHINGTON, DC — The nation’s top expert on infectious diseases and President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci offered a glimmer of hope at a White House press briefing on Thursday, saying that despite “a very, very high rate” of new infections, he thinks that cases may be hitting a plateau. “Right now,
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WASHINGTON, DC — A day after being sworn in, President Joe Biden rolled out a national strategy Thursday to fight Covid-19, reopen the nation’s schools and restart the U.S. economy. He signed 10 virus-related executive orders with the nation deep in the deadliest wave of the pandemic and facing worrisome new mutations. It authorizes broader
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Every week, anchor Mauricio Casillas will speak to Dr. Edward Michelson. Dr. Michelson is the chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine for Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso. Here’s the Q&A for Jan. 21: Mauricio Casillas (KVIA): How has this past week gone for you? Dr. Edward
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health reported 18 coronavirus-related deaths and 531 new cases Thursday morning. The latest fatalities included: 2 men in their 40s1 woman in her 60s2 men in their 60s2 men in their 70s1 woman in her 70s1 man in his 80s The pandemic death toll
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EL PASO, Texas — The Covid-19 hospitalization rate in the El Paso region was back above 20% on Wednesday, causing Socorro Independent School District officials to give teachers the option of instructing from home again. The decision comes just one day after SISD brought students back for in-person classroom learning following what had been a
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — The state’s Covid-19 death toll surpassed 3,000 on Wednesday as an additional 34 fatalities related to complications stemming from the virus were reported. Three of those deaths occurred in Doña Ana County and included two men in their 60s and a woman in her 70s; all had been hospitalized. Confirmed
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UPDATE, Jan. 20: A shipping snafu over the MLK holiday that left UTEP without an expected shipment of nearly 1,000 coronavirus vaccine doses has been resolved, officials said Wednesday, indicating the vaccinations were on their way and would be delivered soon. “Some good news. We now have shipping confirmation for our first delivery of 975
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health announced nine new coronavirus-related deaths and 444 new cases Wednesday morning. The death toll in El Paso County reached 1,606, with the nine latest victims including… 2 men in their 40s1 woman in her 60s2 men in their 60s2 men in their 70s1
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — El Paso health officials have started anticipating the move to the next phase of Covid-19 vaccinations, making it available to more groups of people. During an El Paso City Council meeting Tuesday, Department of Public Health Director Angela Mora said she expects phase 2 distribution could start in late February or early
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WASHINGTON, DC — As President Donald Trump is leaving office, just 1 in 10 Americans say the coronavirus pandemic in the United States is mostly under control, despite the departing president’s assertions that record case levels are exaggerations, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll. As of Tuesday, the virus had infected more than 24 million
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico has now confirmed nearly 165,000 Covid-19 infections since the pandemic began while deaths are approaching the 3,000 mark. That includes a Doña Ana County woman in her 30s and another in her 70s who were among the 20 additional deaths reported Tuesday. The number of people hospitalized in New
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WASHINGTON, DC — President-elect Joe Biden appeared at a memorial for Covid-19 victims at the Lincoln Memorial on Tuesday evening. He will spend the night at Blair House, the president’s official guesthouse, and will be inaugurated as the nation’s 46th president on Wednesday. At the memorial, Biden called on Americans to remember those lost to
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BALTIMORE, Maryland — The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus has topped 400,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The milestone comes almost exactly a year after health officials diagnosed the nation’s first case of the virus, and months of efforts by President Trump to downplay the threat and his administration’s responsibility to confront
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HOUSTON, Texas — Texas on Tuesday reported more than 300 new Covid-19 deaths for the fifth time time in the past week as the toll of the pandemic across the U.S. surpassed 400,000 deaths. Health officials also confirmed more than 8,000 new cases as hospitalizations continued to hover around 14,000. Officials in the border city of Laredo
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Health Department announced seven new coronavirus-related deaths Tuesday morning. One of the victims was identified as a man in his 20s with underlying health conditions. This is the seventh person in their 20s to die of the virus in El Paso County. The other victims were identified
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas– More than 125,000 residents have registered to receive the Covid-19 vaccine so far. The hope was to reach a level of herd immunity sometime this year. City officials fear the rate of vaccines is too low to count on that. They believe herd immunity is still a year away. “We have over
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — Health officials in New Mexico said 628 new coronavirus cases and 26 deaths were reported Monday. Only one of those latest deaths occurred in Doña Ana County. It was a woman in her 60s who was a resident of the Good Samaritan Society nursing facility in Las Cruces. The latest numbers from the
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso woman claims her elderly mother was turned away from getting a vaccination at University Medical Center on Monday after they had received a phone call scheduling an appointment. Yolanda Miranda said she was confused and frustrated after UMC turned away her mom, Irene Dablia, 77, even though she was registered
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — A second case of the highly-contagious variant of the coronavirus has now been detected in New Mexico and third case has been found in Texas, health officials confirmed Monday. The New Mexico Health Department said the second known case in that state involves a woman in her 30s who has
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Health Department reported eight new coronavirus-related deaths and 496 new cases Monday morning. El Paso County’s pandemic death toll has now increased to 1,590. The victims were identified as: 1 man in his 50s1 women in her 50s1 man in his 60s1 woman in her 60s1 woman
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EL PASO, Texas — Nelly Yanez says she was frustrated by what she saw when she went to take her 93-year-old father to get his Covid-19 vaccination at the mega-site at University Medical Center. “I’m like this is ridiculous there’s no way. There was elderly people there in wheelchairs, some of them with oxygen tanks.
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — Health officials in New Mexico on Sunday reported 751 new Covid-19 cases and 22 additional deaths. Four of the latest deaths happened in the southern New Mexico counties of Doña Ana and Luna and included: A man in his 70s from Luna County who was hospitalized.A woman in her 80s from Doña Ana
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EL PASO, Texas — Health officials on Sunday morning reported three more coronavirus deaths, raising El Paso County’s pandemic’s death toll to 1,582. The latest victims were two men in their 60s and a woman in her 80s. That death tally will continue growing as more than 500 likely virus deaths are currently listed as
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico on Saturday reported 1,092 additional known Covid-19 cases and 36 additional deaths, increasing the state’s pandemic totals to 162,893 cases and 2,910 deaths. Most of the deaths across the state involved people in their 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s but a few were in their 30s, 40s and 50s. Southern
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EL PASO, Texas — What happens if you register for your Covid-19 vaccine but then miss the phone call to schedule your appointment? It’s a concern and worry for many El Pasoans. There are more than 125,000 El Pasoans registered to get the Covid-19 vaccine. The volume of calls the city is seeing at this
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WASHINGTON, DC — Officials are warning Americans not to mistake their new pandemic economic stimulus payments for junk mail. The IRS says about 8 million people will receive their payments in debit cards mailed to their homes. That’s on top of others who will get checks in the mail. So government officials are asking Americans to keep
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — El Paso health officials announced 15 new deaths and 543 additional cases stemming from Covid-19 on Saturday morning. The latest victims included a woman in his 50s, three women and two men in their 60s, three men and two women in their 70s, two men and a woman in their 80s,
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico’s confirmed Covid-19 cases topped 161,800 on Friday as officials reported an uptick in new infections with 1,266 additional cases, including 190 in Doña Ana County. Another 38 deaths were also reported Friday, bringing the statewide fatality total since the pandemic began to more than 2,870. Six of those latest
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