AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott teased in a tweet Monday that he would soon allow “more openings” of Texas businesses, setting off speculation that he will allow bars to reopen a second time because he ended the message with the word “Cheers!” and included an image of two beer mugs clinking. Abbott wrote in the tweet that
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Independent School District reported 10 additional coronavirus cases among students and staff on Tuesday as it also unveiled a new Covid-19 online case tracker to provide the latest school system data to the public. Officials indicated that only one of the new infections occurred on-campus while the nine
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health did not report any new coronavirus-related deaths Tuesday morning. That means the death toll in El Paso County still stands at 534. Health officials announced 236 new cases and one “delayed” positive results. These are results that the state is just now reporting
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Click here for blog on the latest developments ABC News poll: 3 in 4 Americans feel Trump didn’t take proper virus precautions ABC-7 exclusive: El Paso insider says not following CDC guidelines allowed virus to spread inside White House BETHESDA, Maryland — President Donald Trump staged a dramatic return to the White House Monday night
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WILMINGTON, Delaware — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is detailing his approach on what he’s called a “national mask mandate” as he campaigns against President Donald Trump. Biden told NBC News during a town hall Monday night that he doesn’t believe a president can impose a national mandate nationwide. But Biden says as president he’d
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — State health officials reported 158 newly confirmed coronavirus infections statewide on Monday, including 44 new cases in Doña Ana County. New Mexico’s cumulative case count was now 30,632, with Doña Ana County’s totaling 3,678. A custodian at Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s residence was among the latest to test positive, officials
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Monday afternoon that she is self-quarantining after potential exposure to Covid-19. The governor’s office said in a statement that a custodian at the governor’s mansion who reported feeling ill late last week has tested positive for the coronavirus. The statement said the custodian
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ATLANTA, Georgia — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has again updated its guidance about how Covid-19 spreads to include information about potential for airborne transmission. “CDC continues to believe, based on current science, that people are more likely to become infected the longer and closer they are to a person with Covid-19,” the agency
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GENEVA, Switzerland — The head of emergencies at the World Health Organization said Monday its “best estimates” indicate that roughly 1 in 10 people worldwide may have been infected by the coronavirus — more than 20 times the number of confirmed cases — and warned of a difficult period ahead. Dr. Michael Ryan, speaking to a
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Department of Public Health reported four new coronavirus-related deaths Monday. It brings the death toll to 534 in El Paso County. Health officials identified the victims as: 1 woman in her 60s1 woman in her 70s2 men in their 70s All had underlying health conditions. Health officials announced
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EL PASO, Texas — The next two football games for El Paso High School are being postponed due to a confirmed case of Covid-19, an El Paso Independent School District spokesman told ABC-7 on Sunday night, but declined to elaborate further. After opening the season this past Friday with a 61-15 loss to Clint, El Paso
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WASHINGTON, DC — As President Donald Trump remains hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after contracting Covid-19 this past week, nearly 3 out of every 4 Americans doubt that he took seriously the threat posed to his well-being nor the steps necessary to avoid contracting the virus, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Sunday. In two separate
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — For a third-straight day on Sunday, health officials reported a death due to the coronavirus in Doña Ana County. The latest Doña Ana County death involved a man in his 50s who had been hospitalized and also had underlying conditions, officials said. His death, one of three reported in New Mexico
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas – A high school student and employee who both had been on their respective campuses became the latest to test positive for Covid-19, the El Paso Independent School District announced Sunday. The student attends El Paso High, and the employee works at Burges High. The district said it had notified all students
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso County on Sunday saw its largest spike in coronavirus cases since the start of July, with 358 new infections and five delayed positives reported. The total number of cases has now reached 25,569 – with 4,271 of those being active infections. To date, there have been 20,647 recovered cases,
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WASHINGTON, DC — Vice President Mike Pence in March directed the nation’s top disease control agency to use its emergency powers to effectively seal the U.S. borders, overruling the agency’s scientists who said there was no evidence the action would slow the coronavirus, according to two former health officials. The action has so far caused
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas health officials on Saturday reported 3,346 newly reported coronavirus cases and 3,660 previous cases that had been unreported for a total increase of 7,006 cases. The Texas health department reported 763,010 total cases and 15,992 deaths due to Covid-19, the illness caused by the virus. The department on Friday had reported 756,004 cases
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico officials on Saturday reported 298 additional Covid-19 cases and three more virus deaths, including a woman in her 70s from Doña Ana County. That increased the statewide totals to 30,296 cases with 890 deaths. The additional cases included 75 in Bernalillo County (Albuquerque metro), which led the state in new
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — The number of El Pasoans who have died of Covid-19 rose to 530 on Saturday with the death of a man in his 40s, local health officials said. In addition, El Paso County recorded 200 new coronavirus cases and seven delayed positives as the total number of infections soared above 25,000.
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso, Ysleta and Canutillo independent school districts announced some significant changes to their operating plans following a meeting Friday with El Paso City-County Health Authority Dr. Hector Ocaranza and other health leaders. That meeting was prompted by a spike in El Paso County coronavirus cases reaching almost 10 percent
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Independent School District on Friday confirmed that three more students and two additional employees at schools in the district have tested positive for Covid-19. It’s the latest in a string of infections reported in El Paso schools. The newest cases involved two students who attend Brown Middle School
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces nursing home resident was among five new coronavirus deaths in New Mexico reported on Friday. It came on a day where the state reached 30,000 confirmed virus cases with several hundred new infections occurring. State health officials indicated the fatality toll from Covid-19 reached 57 in Doña
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health on Friday reported five new coronavirus-related deaths, and more than 300 new cases for the first time in nearly two months. The death toll in El Paso County now stands at 529. Health officials identified the victims as: 3 men in their 60s1
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Mayor Dee Margo cited a “dramatic increase” in new Covid-19 cases in recent days at a briefing on the Covid-19 situation Thursday afternoon. As a result, City-County Health Authority Dr. Hector Ocaranza said in accordance with Centers for Disease Control guidelines that “we should not do Halloween” and traditional
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SANTA FE, New Mexico – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham warned on Thursday that New Mexico is experiencing a “troubling rise in Covid-19” cases and state officials cited Doña Ana County among those areas with a significant increase. The remarks came at a briefing as the state announced 227 additional virus cases for the day and
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — In an effort to deliver the most comprehensive coronavirus coverage, ABC-7 has started a weekly feature where we ask Dr. Jose Burgos, the director of internal medicine at University Medical Center, the same seven questions each week to track how the pandemic is changing. Here’s the Q&A for October 1:
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health reported three new coronavirus-related deaths. It brings the death toll to 524 in El Paso County. Health officials identified the victims as: Woman in her 80sWoman in her 90sMan in his 90s All had underlying health conditions. For the 13th day in a
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — The number of newly reported cases of the coronavirus in Texas took a jump Wednesday as state health officials reported 5,335 new cases, 40% more than the 3,812 cases reported Tuesday. That raised the total Texas caseload since the state began coronavirus tracking in March to 748,767. Of those, 69,767 cases were
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Known active coronavirus cases more than doubled among teens in El Paso between Aug. 28 and Sept. 28, according to county health data. The number of known active cases nearly tripled among children under the age of 13. On Aug. 28, El Paso county data showed 138 known active infections
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EL PASO, TEXAS — Two more Irvin High School students have tested positive for Covid-19, officials said Wednesday afternoon, making five students there who have been diagnosed with the coronavirus over the past week. El Paso Independent School District officials said the two latest students to contract the virus had been on campus and had
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