SANTA FE, New Mexico — Health officials in New Mexico reported 173 additional confirmed Covid-19 cases on Monday with one additional death. That raises the state’s totals to 11,982 confirmed cases with at least 493 known deaths. The lone new death occurred in San Juan County, in the northwest corner of the state. Doña Ana
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EL PASO, Texas — Forty inmates and five detention officers have tested positive in recent days for Covid-19 at El Paso’s two county jails. Sheriff Richard Wiles said the infections appear to be happening in the community. “All of them so far, although they’re still working on doing (contact tracing), are people that have been
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El PASO, Texas — One of the Borderland’s premier events is the latest victim of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Neon Desert Music Festival has been canceled, its organizers announced via Twitter on Monday. The festival, which would have celebrated its 10th anniversary, was originally slated to take place on Memorial Day weekend in May and
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — As coronavirus cases continue to spread, hospitals worldwide are preparing in case of shortages of necessary equipment like ventilators. A team of designers from the University of Texas at El Paso and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso are hoping to help. They have produced a low-cost ventilator
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health announced one new coronavirus death Monday, as well as an increase in hospitalizations that again set a new all-time high. The death toll now stands at 128. The department identified the latest victim as a woman in her 60s with underlying health conditions.
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Chris Van Gorder says he’s seeing a telling trend in the hospitals he runs. Coronavirus patients are showing up in emergency rooms after calling 911 from the US-Mexico border. “They’ll literally come to the border and call an ambulance,” says Van Gorder, president and CEO of Scripps Health, a hospital system in southern California. The
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EL PASO, Texas — After seeing a record number of virus hospitalizations and new cases on Sunday, the city of El Paso announced it would delay the reopening of several “quality of life” services. “The health, safety and well-being of our community and the city’s workforce remains top priority,” wrote Mayor Dee Margo in a
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — A man in his 50s from Doña Ana County was New Mexico’s only new coronavirus death reported on Sunday, raising the state’s fatality count by one to 492. The man who died had been hospitalized with underlying conditions, state health officials said. It was Doña Ana County’s ninth death of
Continue Reading ROME, Italy — Another tragic milestone was passed Sunday in the coronavirus pandemic: 500,000 deaths worldwide. The tally comes from Johns Hopkins University researchers. About 1 in 4 of those deaths – more than 125,000 – have been reported in the U.S. The country with the next highest death toll is Brazil, with more than
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DALLAS, Texas — Both Vice President Mike Pence and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott acknowledged Sunday that there has been a rapid rise in the number of coronavirus cases in the state in recent weeks after Abbott begin allowing businesses to start reopening in early May. “Covid 19 has taken a very swift and very dangerous
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HOUSTON, Texas — The din of conversation and music that normally fills The Cottonmouth Club in downtown Houston fell silent when the owners shut it down for a second time during the coronavirus pandemic — a week before the Texas governor ordered all bars to follow suit amid a surge in infections. Co-owner Michael Neff
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso’s Health Authority expressed “incredible concern” as the county tallied 284 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, which he grimly noted marked “the largest spike since the introduction of the virus to the (El Paso) community.” The county also set troubling new records Sunday for both hospitalizations, with 147 patients, and the
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EL PASO, Texas — A beloved English teacher at Franklin High School is among El Paso’s latest victims of the coronavirus, losing a battle with the Covid-19 disease that lasted less than a month, colleagues said Friday and his family confirmed Saturday. First word of the death of Rene Chavez due to virus complications came
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Chihuahua state health officials said the city of Juárez topped 500 total coronavirus deaths on Saturday, and added over 500 additional virus cases for the week. Juárez recorded seven new deaths to bring the cumulative number of virus fatalities to 502. The city also had 32 new cases reported Saturday for
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AUSTIN, Texas — The state of Texas reported over 5,500 patients in the hospital for coronavirus on Saturday – that’s 16 consecutive days of record-high hospitalizations. Confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Texas also continued to surge on Saturday, with the state reporting 5,747 new cases. A day earlier, Gov. Greg Abbott shut down bars again and
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — State health officials on Saturday reported 209 new coronavirus cases, ending a week in which the infection count often seemed to climb by significant numbers daily. The rate of spread also trended up this week in most regions of the state, with the northeast and southwest – including Dona Ana
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EL PASO, Texas — The Ysleta Independent School District has suspended its summer strength camp and conditioning program for student athletes for at least for a couple of weeks as two coaches at high schools in the district have now been diagnosed with coronavirus. The district made the workout suspension announcement Saturday after officials there
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — As the week drew to a close on Saturday, El Paso had posted nearly 1,000 new coronavirus cases in that span, set a record for hospitalizations and saw its death toll grow to 127. Newly released health department data Saturday morning reflected 113 new daily cases and one additional death. The
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – On Friday nights in downtown Las Cruces before the pandemic, Rad Retrocade used to be packed with patrons. “Rad was very successful,” said Scott Johnson, the bar’s general manager. “We were doing very well until we were forced to shut down.” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has now delayed the reopening
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — As students rush purchase school supplies for the fall semester, administrators are rushing to buy personal protective equipment during the pandemic. “It’s really hard to put a price on it, but it’s going to be quite pricey,” said Gabe Jacquez, the deputy superintendent of operations for Las Cruces Public Schools.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas surpassed 5,000 hospitalized coronavirus patients for the first time Friday afternoon as Gov. Greg Abbott acknowledged in an interview with ABC-7 that he allowed bars in the state to reopen too soon. “If I could go back and redo anything, it probably would have been to slow down the re-opening of
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott shut down bars in Texas again on Friday and scaled back restaurant dining to 50% capacity, the most dramatic reversals yet as confirmed coronavirus cases surge to record levels after the state embarked on one of America’s fastest reopenings. RELATED STORY: Gov. Abbott tells ABC-7 he let bars re-open
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico has more than 11,400 coronavirus cases with the confirmation Friday of 225 new infections and four deaths. Friday’s new deaths were all in McKinley County, in the northwest corner of the state. The death toll across New Mexico to date now stands at 489. In southern New Mexico, there were 36 new
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — New Mexico State Fair officials announced Friday that this year’s fair would be canceled due to coronavirus concerns, providing yet another hit to the state’s economy during the pandemic. The state fair had been planned for Sept. 10 through Sept. 20. “None of us could ever imagine, just a few short months ago,
Continue Reading CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexico has now pushed past 25,000 coronavirus deaths and 200,000 confirmed cases, as the nation’s treasury secretary said he tested positive and would self-isolate while working from home. Chihuahua state health officials on Friday reported 17 new deaths and 428 additional cases in Ciudad Juarez. That takes the total number of
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WASHINGTON, DC — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said the White House coronavirus task force is having “intense discussions” and is “seriously considering” pool testing for COVID-19. He also acknowledged that the Trump administration’s current testing strategy has proven inadequate. Fauci said the proposal is still in the discussion stage and
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Department of Public Health reported 233 new coronavirus cases El Paso on Friday. That’s the highest single-day increase ever recorded in the county. There have now been 5,217 total cases. More than 3,500 people have recovered, and there are 1,541 known active cases — a new record. The health
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — When an El Pasoan dies from Covid-19 and officials say the victim had no underlying health conditions, it doesn’t necessarily mean the victim wasn’t at a higher risk of dying from the coronavirus. During the weekly pandemic update to City Council on June 22, El Paso City-County Health Authority Dr. Hector
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday morning that he will pause any further phases of reopening Texas as the state is facing a “massive outbreak” in the coronavirus pandemic, with the numbers of new cases and hospitalizations continuing to hit record highs. The governor also put new restrictions into place on elective surgeries
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham had a simple message Thursday as the statewide total of Covid-19 infections in New Mexico exceeded 11,000. “You should stay home,” Lujan Grisham said as she announced that phase two of the state’s reopening plan slated for July 1 – which includes bars, theaters and non-tribal casinos
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