EL PASO, Texas — Infectious disease experts say shopping inside an enclosed shopping mall can likely serve as a Petri dish of transmission for Covid-19. At El Paso’s Cielo Vista Mall on Tuesday, ABC-7 observed large groups of people gathering, shopping for Christmas gifts and disregarding social distancing – with some not even wearing face masks. “I
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico health officials reported an additional 1,272 confirmed Covid-19 cases Tuesday, pushing the statewide total since the pandemic began to more than 132,000. Another 23 deaths also were reported, bringing that tally to more than 2,200. Doña Ana County had just one of the state’s latest deaths, a woman
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WASHINGTON, DC — Pfizer is close to announcing a deal with the Trump Administration to supply tens of millions of additional doses of its Covid-19 vaccine in exchange for federal government help with access to manufacturing supplies, the New York Times and the Washington Post each reported on Tuesday. That deal could be publicly unveiled
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WILMINGTON, Delaware — President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday expressed empathy with struggling families and applauded Congress for passing the coronavirus relief bill as the nation deals with a Covid-19 surge that’s casting a shadow over the Christmas holiday. He called out to frontline workers, scientists, researchers, clinical trial participants and those with deployed family members
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott received the Covid-19 vaccine Tuesday, as newly confirmed cases and hospitalizations continue soaring in the state, saying he wanted to show Texans how “safe and easy” it is. He received the shot on live television at Austin’s Ascension Seton Medical Center to help reassure the public that inoculations
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico health officials said Tuesday they are hoping to boost the number of people getting tested for Covid-19 through a new program that will provide free, at-home test kits to anyone who requests one. Through a partnership with Vault Medical Services, the saliva tests can be ordered online. All that’s needed
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Health Department reported 19 new coronavirus-related deaths Tuesday morning. The latest victims included: 1 man in his 30s1 woman in her 40s1 women in her 50s6 men in their 60s1 woman in her 60s4 men in their 70s2 men in their 80s2 women in their 80s1 man
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WASHINGTON, DC — Congress has easily passed a $900 billion pandemic relief package. It promises to deliver long-sought cash to businesses and individuals and resources to vaccinate a nation confronting a frightening surge in Covid-19 cases and deaths. Lawmakers tacked on a $1.4 trillion catchall spending bill and thousands of pages of other end-of-session business
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AUSTIN, Texas — The number of patients hospitalized with the coronavirus in Texas again climbed past the troubling mark of 10,000 on Monday for the first time since this summer’s deadly peak. The state is also running low on ICU beds. It comes as Gov. Greg Abbott plans on getting the Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday as more
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — More than 130,800 confirmed Covid-19 cases have now been reported in New Mexico since the pandemic began. That includes an additional 826 cases reported Monday, marking one of the lowest daily totals since the beginning of November. There were 72 of those new cases in Doña Ana County on Monday,
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – For more than 22 years, she was known and loved as “Mrs. Gloria” in Las Cruces Public Schools. “She was larger than life,” said her son Ernie. “One of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. It didn’t matter who you were. She was nice to you. She treated you just
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NEWARK, Delaware — President-elect Joe Biden received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on live television as part of a growing effort to convince the American public the inoculations are safe. There’s “nothing to worry about,” Biden said as he urged Americans to take vaccine as it becomes available to them. The president-elect took
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said Monday that Americans who qualify for $600 direct payments in the new pandemic relief legislation should expect to see money direct deposited into their accounts as early as next week. “The good news is this is a very, very fast way of getting money into the
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health announced 16 new confirmed coronavirus-related deaths Monday. The latest fatalities included: 2 men in their 50s1 women in her 50s1 man in his 60s3 women in their 60s2 men in their 70s2 women in their 70s1 woman in her 80s3 men in their
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — After months of failed negotiations and contentious partisan gridlock, congressional lawmakers announced a roughly $900 billion stimulus package on Sunday that would send immediate relief to Americans and businesses besieged by the economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic – a deal more than eight months in the making. “Moments ago, the four
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Health officials in New Mexico on Sunday reported 1,077 new Covid-19 cases and 16 related deaths. Three of those new deaths occurred in southern New Mexico. They included 2 men in their 60s, one each from Doña Ana and Otero counties, and a woman in her 80s who was a resident of Calibre
Continue Reading ATLANTA, Georgia — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has voted 13-1 to prioritize adults ages 75 and older and front-line essential workers like firefighters, teachers and grocery store employees to receive Covid-19 vaccines in phase 1b of allocation as a second vaccine began rolling out to hospitals. The
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso’s death toll from Covid-19 officially grew by four more on Sunday morning, as the county reached 1,288 deaths – contributing to a statewide death count in Texas that has exceeded 25,000, which is the second largest of any state in the nation. The Borderland’s latest confirmed deaths included a
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — Texas on Saturday surpassed 25,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, the second-highest total in the country. El Paso’s virus deaths as of Saturday made up 1,284 of the Texas total. State health officials reported 272 new deaths due to Covid-19, bringing Texas’ death toll to 25,226. Cases of Covid-19 and virus-related hospitalizations
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EL PASO, Texas — Covid-19 vaccinations are continuing across El Paso county. More health care workers are receiving the vaccine and the city’s health department is also preparing for the Moderna vaccine. Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare Network officially began vaccinating their healthcare workers Saturday. The hospital network received 1950 doses the Pfizer vaccine Thursday.
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico— New Mexico on Saturday reported 1,442 additional known COVID-19 cases and 27 additional deaths. Four of those deaths happened in Dona Ana County: a man in his 60s, two women in their 80s and one in her 90s. The statewide totals increased to 128,930 cases and 2,155 as seven-day rolling averages for daily
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — El Paso public health officials on Saturday morning reported four more coronavirus deaths, 339 new cases and 49 delayed positive results. The number of active infections in El Paso County stands at 36,065, which is down slightly from the prior day and is at its lowest level in roughly a month.
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EL PASO, Texas– Concerns have arisen over who is getting vaccinated against Covid-19 in El Paso after an employee of University Medical Center, who is not a health care worker, posted a picture on social media while getting a shot. The employee is Taylor Moreno, a program director for the UMC and El Paso Children’s
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico– The New Mexico Department of Health reported 31 additional Covid-19-related deaths on Friday, with several of them occurring in southern New Mexico, as the state’s death toll reached 2,128. Two men in their 70s from Doña Ana County and a woman in her 60s from Luna County were among the state’s latest
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WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. added a second Covid-19 vaccine to its arsenal Friday, boosting efforts to beat back an outbreak so dire that the nation is regularly recording more than 3,000 deaths a day. Much-needed doses are set to arrive Monday after the Food and Drug Administration authorized an emergency rollout of the vaccine
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — Some 620,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines are expected to land at 1,100 providers in 185 Texas counties starting Monday, including smaller and rural hospitals left out of the first shipment of doses this week, state health officials said late Friday. The Texas allocation will include 159,900 doses of the Pfizer vaccine, most of them
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health reported 11 new coronavirus-related deaths Friday. The victims included a male teenager, as well as: 2 women in their 50s1 man in his 60s1 woman in her 60s3 women in their 70s2 men in their 70s1 men in his 90s All had underlying
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WASHINGTON, DC — Vice President Mike Pence became the highest ranking U.S. official to receive the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on Friday in a live-television event aimed at reassuring Americans the shot is safe. He celebrated the milestone as “a medical miracle” that could eventually contain the raging pandemic. Conspicuously missing from the
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Department of Public Health along with local medical experts hosted a virtual town hall meeting Thursday evening for the community to learn more about Texas’ distribution plans and local efforts for the Covid-19 vaccination. The panelists shared the latest information on the distribution plan, local Covid-19 dispensing plan
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EL PASO, Texas — In a briefing at City Hall on Thursday afternoon, Mayor Dee Margo offered his “compliments to the citizens of El Paso,” proclaiming “we dodged a bullet” with no post-Thanksgiving spike in coronavirus cases. But Margo warned that headed into the Christmas and New Year’s holidays is “not the time to let
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