SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico on Tuesday set a new record for the number of Covid-19 cases reported in a single day and hospitalizations marked a new high for the 12th day in a row. State health officials reported an additional 1,141 cases Tuesday, bringing the statewide total to 49,240 since the coronavirus pandemic began.
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EL PASO, Texas – The Walmart supercenter at 9441 Alameda in the Lower Valley has been temporarily closed to deal with the surge in coronavirus cases in the Borderland, the company announced Tuesday afternoon. The store closed at 2 p.m. Tuesday and is slated to reopen at 7 a.m. Thursday after a deep cleaning done
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health reported four new coronavirus-related deaths, and 998 total hospitalizations due to Covid-19 on Tuesday morning. The latest deaths included a woman in her 60s, a man and a woman each in their 80s, and a man in his 90s. The death toll now
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EL PASO, TEXAS — Texas has surpassed California in recording the highest number of positive coronavirus tests in the U.S. so far, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. As the coronavirus pandemic surges across the nation, there have been 938,503 cases in Texas, the nation’s second-most populous state. California, the most populous state, has had
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso County Commissioners Court met for the first time Monday in the wake of County Judge Ricardo Samaniego’s shutdown order for non-essential businesses due to a huge spike in Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations. “I’m trying to do my best not to do a permanent damaging impact. We can bring businesses
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SAN ELIZARIO, Texas – The city of San Elizario announced Monday that it is supporting El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego’s health order shutting down non-essential businesses for two weeks to stem the surge of Covid-19. San Elizario also urged local school districts to engage in remote education and suspend extracurricular activities. Residents were encouraged
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El PASO, Texas — The top professional organization for doctors in El Paso has written an open letter supporting the two-week stay at home order issued by County Judge Ricardo Samaniego in the hopes of tamping down a spike in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. The El Paso County Medical Society on Monday become the second
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico on Monday marked another daily high for the number of patients hospitalized as a result of a Covid-19 infection. State health officials said there were more than 380 people hospitalized around the state. Overall, nearly three-quarters of general beds and almost 70% of intensive care beds at New Mexico hospitals are
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health announced three new coronavirus-related deaths and 1,143 new cases Monday morning. The death toll now stands at 605 in El Paso County. Public health officials identified the latest victims as: Man in his 60sWoman in her 60sWoman in her 70s All three had
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El PASO, Texas — In an open letter to Mayor Dee Margo on Sunday, the El Paso Pediatric Society called on him to enforce the county judge’s lockdown order and take other measures in the wake of what it called an “overwhelming increase in mortality, near-breaking point hospital bed capacity, and extreme duress for our
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EL PASO, Texas — Several El Paso business have now received citations for being in violation of the county’s shutdown order aimed at stemming the rise of coronavirus cases in the community. ABC-7 confirmed with representatives for three restaurants that their locations were cited by sheriff’s and constable deputies: The Don Carbon Mesquite Grill in
Continue Reading SOCORRO, Texas – A Walmart store in Socorro was abruptly closed Sunday afternoon because of concerns about the surge of Covid-19 in the Borderland. The store at 10301 Alameda Ave. will remain closed until 7 a.m. on Tuesday. A spokeswoman from Walmart called it part of a “company-initiated program” that will allow for extra time
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico health officials on Sunday reported 747 new Covid-19 cases and eight additional deaths, including two fatalities in Doña Ana County. The latest Doña Ana victims were a woman in her 60s and a man in his 80s who had been hospitalized. The county’s pandemic death total has now reached 82,
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UPDATE: The El Paso County Medical Examiner’s Office is now getting a fourth refrigerated mobile morgue as Covid-19 deaths continue to rise, with more expected as the numbers of hospital patients in ICUs and on respirators reached all-time highs on Sunday. “My understanding is that we just got our fourth one,” County Judge Ricardo Samaniego
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EL PASO, Texas – The city of El Paso has a couple of options to make it easier for residents to report their positive Covid-19 test results and help contact tracers. An electronic self-reporting form is now available at epstrong.org under the testing tab. This is in addition to the current self-reporting phone number at
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso topped 600 coronavirus deaths on Sunday morning with the latest victims all under age 50, as health officials also reported over 1,200 added infections and yet another record number of hospitalized patients requiring ventilators. The three deaths reported Sunday brought the pandemic fatality total to 602. Those included two
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso County Constable’s and Sheriff’s Offices on Saturday declared that Judge Ricardo Samaniego’s order shutting down non-essential businesses due to a massive coronavirus outbreak would be enforced by their agencies effective immediately in both the county and city. “The El Paso County Constable’s Office would like to emphasize that
Continue Reading LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Saturday marked Doña Ana County’s deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic as southern New Mexico accounted for seven of the state’s eleven newly announced Covid-19 deaths. Doña Ana County recorded a half-dozen of the latest deaths, while an additional fatality occurred in adjacent Otero County. State health officials identified the
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EL PASO, Texas — A west El Paso Sam’s Club store was abruptly closed Saturday due to apparent concerns about the the spread of Covid-19. Walmart, which operates the Sam’s Club store at 7970 N. Mesa Street, shut it down Saturday afternoon and the company said it would remain closed until Monday morning. A spokeswoman
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Covid-19 infections continued their skyrocketing increase on Saturday as El Paso health officials announced an all-time high 1,643 new cases, along with a rising death count just shy of 600 and a record for hospital patients needing respirators. Saturday’s daily cases brought the staggering tally of currently active coronavirus infections to
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso County Attorney Friday night issued a legal opinion in defense of County Judge Ricardo Samaniego’s controversial non-essential business shutdown order to combat the spread of coronavirus, and she flatly disputed contentions by the city’s mayor and the state attorney general that the decree was invalid. County Attorney JoAnne
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico on Friday marked a grim milestone, as deaths related to the coronavirus topped the 1,000 mark. The statewide toll reached 1,007 with the addition of 13 more deaths, the most in a single day since the pandemic began. They included two Doña Ana County men who had been hospitalized, one
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El PASO, Texas — The Texas Attorney General’s Office joined a lawsuit filed Friday against El Paso County over Judge Ricardo Samaniego’s business closure order aimed at controlling the rapid spread of Covid-19 that has overwhelmed local hospitals. The lawsuit was brought by ten El Paso restaurants, many with common ownership. The list included such
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Mayor Dee Margo defended the city’s decision Friday to refuse to enforce County Judge Ricardo Samaniego’s shutdown order for non-essential business amid a massive Covid-19 outbreak in the community. But the mayor faced a break within the city’s own ranks, with three members of El Paso City Council calling
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EL PASO, Texas — A police spokesman said Friday that the El Paso Police Department would not be enforcing an order issued by County Judge Ricardo Samaniego restricting business operations to essential services only. Samaniego said he issued Thursday evening’s order in the hopes of containing the spread of Covid-19 throughout El Paso, which has
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Declaring El Paso “under siege by a deadly virus,” County Judge Ricardo Samaniego on Friday defended his order to shutdown non-essential services as Mayor Dee Margo openly encouraged businesses to ignore the directive. “Our hospitals are saturated and the lives of so many in our region depend on the limited and
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EL PASO, Texas — Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz held a prayer service and solemn blessing of El Paso on Friday from atop the Scenic Drive overlook amidst the surging Covid-19 outbreak in the community. “The rise in coronavirus cases in El Paso has caused me so much concern,” Seitz said. “I hope that the people
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – In response to the surging virus cases throughout the Borderland, the Las Cruces City Council could soon add a fine to the city’s mask requirement. “What type of enforcement power do we have?” asked Councilman Gabe Vasquez. “How aggressive can we be?” “When we’re having these numbers, this is the
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health reported 10 new coronavirus-related deaths Friday morning. It brings the death toll in El Paso County to 595. The victims were identified as: 1 man in his 40s1 woman in her 40s1 man in his 60s2 men in their 70s1 woman in her
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — El Paso County’s top elected official ordered a two-week shutdown of non-essential activities as of midnight Thursday after the area’s hospitals and medical resources were overwhelmed by coronavirus illness. County Judge Ricardo Samaniego announced the measure during a news conference Thursday evening. Among the non-essential services ordered to be closed, effective at midnight
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