SANTA FE, New Mexico — State health officials on Saturday announced 139 additional virus cases and two related deaths, both Albuquerque nursing home residents. That raised the pandemic tally to 25,178 cases and 767 deaths statewide. In southern New Mexico, Doña Ana County had 20 new cases for a total of 2,813 to date. Neighboring
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Department of Public Health reported two more coronavirus deaths Saturday morning to take the county’s pandemic death toll to 417. The latest victims were both women, one in her 50s and the other in her 60s. El Paso has reported new Covid-19 deaths every day, with the exception of
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EL PASO, Texas — Coronavirus concerns didn’t inhibit a crowd from being staged for President Donald Trump’s finale to the Republican National Convention. It was a scene never before seen at the White House: About 1,500 people packed tightly together Thursday night on the South Lawn so Trump could accept his party’s nomination for re-election in
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EL PASO, Texas– More than 16,000 El Paso residents have now recovered after being infected with Covid-19. While that statistic bodes well for the city as a whole, it does not paint a clear picture of what happens once your body has been infected with the coronavirus. A recovered patient may no longer be contagious
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — An Otero County woman in her 30s was among three new coronavirus deaths announced by New Mexico state health officials on Friday. The woman had been hospitalized with underlying conditions prior to her death, officials said. Her death raised Otero County’s fatality toll from the pandemic to a dozen, while
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health announced five new coronavirus-related deaths Friday morning. That elevated the death toll in El Paso County to 415. The health department identified the victims as: 1 man in his 40s2 men in their 60s1 woman in her 70s1 man in his 80s All
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico will ease restrictions on some mass gatherings and business activities in response to a gradual decline in average daily Covid-19 cases and deaths statewide, according to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. As of Thursday, state health officials had identified 24,920 positive cases (190 additional) and 755 deaths (9 additional) linked
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EL PASO, Texas — On May 29, the managers of two Central El Paso bars were each given a pair of citations for violating El Paso’s pandemic health orders requiring social distancing and limiting bar capacity. That brought the city’s total citations since mid-March to 117. El Paso County had 2,700 confirmed Covid-19 cases. In
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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. Mauricio Casillas (KVIA): How has this
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health reported 11 new coronavirus-related deaths on Thursday morning. That brought the death toll in El Paso County to 410. The health department identified the fatalities as: 1 man in his 50s1 man in his 60s1 man in his 70s1 woman in her 70s4
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has scheduled a news conference for Thursday afternoon to discuss a loosening of restrictions involving dining and church attendance as the state’s Covid-19 case numbers have recently shown decline. Although the official announcement was a day away, the governor’s office on Wednesday outlined the
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico state health officials on Wednesday announced 205 additional Covid-19 cases, which represented a jump from the 69 new cases reported Tuesday — the smallest daily number since June. State health officials have reported 24,732 confirmed infections and 755 deaths since the pandemic began; they reported five new deaths
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WASHINGTON, DC — White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci said he was undergoing surgery and not part of the discussion during the Aug. 20 task force meeting when updated U..S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines were discussed. “I was under general anesthesia in the operating room and was not part of any
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UPDATE: Fauci says he was not part of task force meeting on new CDC testing guidelines WASHINGTON, DC — In a shift that perplexed some doctors, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has abruptly changed its Covid-19 testing guidelines to say some people without symptoms may not need to be tested, even if
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso County’s coronavirus death toll now stands at 399. The Department of Public Health announced two new virus deaths Wednesday morning. Health officials identified the victims as a man in his 50s and a woman in her 80s. Both had underlying health conditions. The health department also announced 99
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas reported 2,754 new coronavirus cases and another 25 deaths on Monday, and for the first time since June had less than 5,000 people hospitalized with Covid-19 disease. A total of 4,907 Texans were listed as being in the hospital for the coronavirus as of Monday — which is 1,303 less than a week ago. They occupy 9% of the
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso doctor continues to issue a plea to those who’ve recovered from Covid-19 to donate their plasma to patients currently fighting the potentially deadly virus. This comes as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma on Sunday. The EUA allows the plasma
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EL PASO, Texas — Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush has ordered a leadership shake-up at the Ambrosio Guillen Texas State Veterans Home in northeast El Paso, hours after an El Paso Matters report raised questions about the Covid-19 death of a World War II veteran at the nursing home. “Over the past several months, we
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces nursing home resident was among two new coronavirus deaths reported in Doña Ana County on Tuesday and three occurring statewide. State health officials indicated the fatality toll from Covid-19 reached 40 in Doña Ana County and hit 750 across New Mexico. The two latest Doña Ana County
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RUIDOSO, New Mexico — A McDonald’s location in Ruidoso is the scene of the largest restaurant outbreak of coronavirus in New Mexico, according to state data. Since earlier this month, the state Environment Department indicated at least 13 employees tested positive at the McDonald’s at 140 Sudderth in Ruidoso. In addition to being the largest outbreak
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Three new coronavirus-related deaths were announced Tuesday morning by the Department of Public Health. The death toll has now reached 397 in El Paso County, just three shy of 400. The victims were identified as two men in their 80s and a woman in their 90s. The health department said
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — Health officials in New Mexico reported 76 new confirmed Coronavirus cases and two additional deaths as of Monday. The latest numbers from the New Mexico Department of Health increase the state’s totals to 24,469 cases and 747 deaths. The latest deaths happened in Lea and McKinley counties. Dona Ana County
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A 33-year-old man living in Hong Kong had Covid-19 twice this year, according to preliminary research out of China. The pre-print study — which the University of Hong Kong said on Monday has been accepted to publish in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases — found that the man’s second case of Covid-19 occurred 142 days after the first. The
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health announced four new virus deaths Monday morning. The death toll now stands at 394 in El Paso County. Monday’s announcement comes a day after the health department did not report a new death for the first time in 33 days. The health department
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SANTE FE, New Mexico — Health officials in New Mexico reported 98 new confirmed Coronavirus cases and two additional deaths as of Sunday. The two new deaths occurred in Bernalillo and McKinley counties. The latest numbers from the New Mexico Department of Health increased the state’s totals to 24,396 cases and 745 deaths. Doña Ana
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — El Paso County’s coronavirus death toll held steady Sunday morning as health officials reported no new fatalities. It marked a milestone moment, the first day in over a month in which the health department didn’t add to the death count. Deaths among El Pasoans had been recorded for 33 straight days,
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — Health officials in New Mexico on Saturday reported 213 new confirmed Covid-19 cases and four additional deaths, one of those occurring in Dona Ana County. The latest numbers released Saturday pushed the state’s totals to 24,302 cases and 743 known deaths. The Dona Ana County victim was a woman in her 80s who
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico– With businesses slowly being opened across the country, one community will be under a microcope until their numbers reach a level local health officals feel safe exposing them to the rest of the population. Senior citizenes in New Mexico have been quarantined within their assisted living homes since the beginning of
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Saturday morning’s news release from the El Paso Department of Public Health started the same way these announcements have every day for well over a month now: “Unfortunately, today we’re reporting (insert number of) deaths…” The number was four on Saturday as El Paso County’s death toll from the coronavirus approached
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — Texas surpassed 11,000 coronavirus deaths on Friday and reported more than 4,600 confirmed new cases, while the number of patients hospitalized because of the virus continued to fall. Texas earlier this week became just the fourth state to surpass 10,000 deaths, but the toll has rapidly mounted as the state has averaged about 200
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