EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — As the City of El Paso heads into its third week of Covid-19 vaccinations, a new Texas dashboard allows the public to follow along with vaccine rollout throughout the state. The “Covid-19 Vaccination in Texas” dashboard, run by the Texas Department of State Health Services, reports how many vaccine doses
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso health officials announced a half-dozen new coronavirus-related deaths Monday, one involving a woman who was just in her 30s. All six individuals actually died last month, although officials said Covid-19 was just confirmed as their cause of death, The victims include: 1 woman in her 30s1 man in his
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LONDON, ENGLAND — The U.K. has became the first country in the world to start using the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and drugmaker AstraZeneca. It is ramping up a nationwide vaccination program as rising infection rates are putting an unprecedented strain on British hospitals. Brian Pinker, an 82-year-old dialysis patient, received the first
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SANTA FE, New Mexico – New Mexico state health officials on Sunday announced 1,033 additional Covid-19 cases and 17 more deaths across the state. A man in his 50s from Luna County was among the latest deaths; his was the only fatality reported from southern New Mexico on Sunday. Just the state’s two largest counties reported
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas – Tenants in El Paso can receive up to six months of future rent relief, thanks to the Texas Home Program and the nonprofit organization Under One Roof. Tenants with household income at or below 80 percent of the adjusted median family income and who have lost income because of the pandemic
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EL PASO, Texas — A non-profit El Paso clinic facing questions after it received thousands of Covid-19 vaccines, but failed to heed to the state’s call to administer those doses right away, announced Sunday it had teamed up with the El Paso Department of Public Health on quicker distribution efforts. ABC-7 reported last week that
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Department of Public Health announced three additional Covid-19 deaths along with 345 added cases on Sunday morning, as the county approached the 100,000 residents infected milestone — a pandemic mark which could be reached in the next day or so. The latest deaths involved three men — one
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EL PASO, Texas – The Texas Supreme Court has struck down rules banning Austin-area restaurants from offering late-night dine-in service, siding with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over local officials who said the measure was needed to slow the coronavirus’ spread. In addition, Paxton has now made good on a New Year’s Eve threat and filed
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AUSTIN, Texas — Coronavirus hospitalizations fell slightly in Texas on Saturday but remained near their record high, as health officials said there were only about 600 intensive-care beds available across the state of nearly 29 million people. Texas reported 12,319 Covid-19 patients in hospitals on Saturday, ending five consecutive days of record-breaking hospitalizations. But even
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — The state of New Mexico on Saturday reported 1,252 additional known Covid-19 cases and 32 additional deaths, increasing the state’s totals since the pandemic began to 145,379 cases and 2,534 deaths. Seven of the latest deaths occurred in southern New Mexico’s Dona Ana and Otero counties and included: A woman
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — El Paso health officials on Saturday reported 421 additional known Covid-19 infections, but no new deaths. It marked a significant change from the day prior, when officials reported a half-dozen added deaths to start the year. Active cases increased to 34,563, but the death toll remained at 1,473. There were still 544
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico on Friday reported 1,286 additional known Covid-19 infections and 25 deaths, raising the statewide totals since the pandemic started to 144,142 infections and 2,502 deaths. Counties with triple-digit increases in cases included Bernalillo (316), Dona Ana (160), San Juan (155) and Sandoval (108) while the additional deaths were reported in
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — El Paso health officials began the New Year by confirming a half-dozen additional deaths due to Covid-19, raising the pandemic fatality total to 1,473. Thew new deaths, while reported on Jan. 1, all actually occurred during the month of December. The latest victims included 2 men and a woman in their
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EL PASO, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed restaurants to ignore local curfews — specifically in El Paso and Travis counties — that were implemented to mitigate the spread of the Covid-19 virus on New Year’s Eve. The governor’s action brought a swift rebuke from El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego who, in an interview with
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — Texas hit another grim milestone Thursday when it surpassed 12,000 patients hospitalized with Covid-19, setting a new record high in that category for the fourth consecutive day. Meanwhile, a Travis County district judge sided with Austin officials on a restriction regarding late-night dine-in services on New Year’s Eve following a hearing just hours
Continue Reading SANTA Fe, New Mexico — New Mexico health officials on Thursday reported an additional 1,684 confirmed Covid-19 infections, pushing the statewide total since the pandemic began to 142,864. Of those new cases, 118 were in Doña Ana County, where it’s total case count for the year reached 17,476. Another 41 deaths were reported across New Mexico,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA): ABC-7 is revamping its weekly check-in segment with a doctor on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. 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. Here’s the Q&A for Dec.
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso health officials reported 15 new coronavirus-related deaths, and for the first time since mid October, Covid-19 hospitalizations dropped below 400. All 15 of the deceased had underlying health conditions. They include: 3 women in their 60s2 men in their 60s3 men in their 70s1 woman in her 70s3
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EL PASO, Texas — More than 2,000 vaccines were sent to the Immunize El Paso’s eastside clinic last week, but won’t be administered until next week leaving the vaccines sitting in a freezer for two weeks. Director of Operations Dusty Warden told ABC-7 they received notice of the shipment on Dec. 22. By the next
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — The total number of confirmed Covid-19 infections in New Mexico topped 141,000 on Wednesday, while deaths surpassed 2,430. There were 33 deaths across the state that were added to the fatality count on Wednesday, with five of those occurring in Doña Ana County. The Doña Ana deaths included one woman
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — State Health Secretary Dr. Tracie Collins said during a briefing Wednesday that she feels positive so far about the rollout of vaccinations in New Mexico to frontline health care workers and staff and residents at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. In all, the state has ordered and received
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LONDON, England — UK regulators have approved the use of the Oxford University/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, which is cheaper and easier to distribute than some rivals and could in time offer a route out of the pandemic for large parts of the world. The UK government said it would follow a new immunization strategy for the
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso health officials announced 26 new coronavirus-related deaths Wednesday morning, along with 267 new cases. The victims include a woman in her 20s. She is one of six other people in their 20s to die of the virus in El Paso. The other victims include: 1 male in his
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso school teacher who made a viral video two years ago of her first-graders greeting one another has died of Covid-19. Word of 35-year-old Zelene Blancas’ death on Monday came via a social media post from a fellow educator in the Socorro Independent School District. Patty Flores wrote that
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — Texas hit a new record of Covid-19 hospitalizations on Tuesday, with more people now hospitalized for the virus than at any other time during the pandemic. It comes as the state continues to slowly give its first round of vaccines. State health officials reported Texas has received nearly 612,000 vaccine doses so
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WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Treasury Secretery Steven Mnuchin said direct payments to Americans may begin to be deposited as early as Tuesday night. These would be the $600 payments included in the Covid-19 relief package that President Trump signed into law on Sunday evening. In a tweet on Tuesday evening, Mnuchin wrote: “.@USTreasury has delivered a
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico health officials on Tuesday reported an additional 1,221 confirmed infections, bringing the statewide total to nearly 140,000 since the pandemic began. In Doña Ana County, there were 122 new daily cases, or about 10% of the state’s count, for a pandemic total of 17,203 infections. Another 23 deaths
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ELBERT COUNTY, Colorado — According to ABC News, a Colorado man is believed to be the first known case of the highly infectious Covid-19 variant in the U.S. On Tuesday, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis confirmed the same variant discovered overseas in Europe’s United Kingdom now exists in Colorado. State public health officials reported the infected
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Health Department reported one new coronavirus-related death Tuesday morning. Health officials said the victim was a man in his 80s with underlying health conditions. That brought the county’s pandemic death total to 1,426. Hospitalizations decreased from 441 to 428. There are 171 Covid-19 patients in the ICU.
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EL PASO, Texas — One of the Borderland’s most prominent experts on infectious diseases has contracted Covid-19. Dr. Ogechika Alozie, the co-chair of the City of El Paso’s Covid task force and a member of the Texas governor’s infectious disease preparedness task force, told ABC-7 on Monday evening that he and another family member have
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