EL PASO, Texas — Doctors and nurses from around the country, including the Borderland, are working on the front lines in the epicenter for the coronavirus pandemic in the United States: New York City. But respiratory therapists are also hard at work. Native El Pasoan Gregorio Escalante, a respiratory therapist at Las Palmas Medical Center
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EL PASO, Texas– Virtual learning has silenced the halls of schools during the worldwide pandemic. Teachers interacting with their students in-person will not be permitted until next school year. The current times put a damper on a normally celebrated time, ‘Teacher Appreciation Week.’ Marina Sigala, a physical education teacher at Father Yermo School, found a
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EL PASO, Texas – The effort to get El Paso back open for business took a major step over the weekend as several malls welcomed back customers. Workers at the Bassett Place shopping mall said that the foot traffic seemed slow, but there were still enough people around to keep them busy. “It is such
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EL PASO, Texas — Health officials reported yet another day of double-digit increases in El Paso County coronavirus cases on Sunday, but they did find an encouraging sign as hospitalization numbers decreased. There were a dozen new infections on Sunday, bringing the county’s cumulative case total to 998, officials said, while the number of deaths remained
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For Zeke Quezada, the shaming was fierce and totally unexpected. There he was, mere blocks from his home in South Pasadena, California, walking with his wife and teenage son, when a mask-wearing, dog-walking neighbor stopped to chat. Standing at least 10 feet apart, the foursome loosely held court for about five minutes on the grass
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Public Health Department reported 25 new coronavirus cases on Saturday evening, bringing the county’s cumulative number just shy of the thousand case milestone to 986. After several days of additional deaths being tallied, the number of fatalities held at 22. But health leaders said there were 61 El Pasoans hospitalized, with 39
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EL PASO, Texas — With the start of a new month, rent is now due once again. However, many are still struggling to get on their feet as the outbreak of Covid-19 continues. The Texas governor’s executive order protecting tenants from eviction is set to expire on May 18, leaving many tenants wondering what to
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Public Health Department on Friday evening reported one new Covid-19 death, a man in his 60s, bringing the total number of deaths in the county to 22. Officials also reported 37 new virus cases, bringing El Paso County’s total case number ever closer to the 1,000 mark, standing
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GALLUP, New Mexico — The governor of New Mexico invoked the state’s Riot Control Act on Friday as she sealed off all roads to non-essential traffic in the city of Gallup to help control a surging coronavirus outbreak in the former trading post city on the outskirts of the Navajo Nation. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham
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EL PASO, Texas — Friday marks seven weeks since El Paso’s first reported Covid-19 case. It’s also the day that Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Texas economy to begin reopening. Seven weeks into efforts to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, the number of new cases is growing, but at a slower rate. Covid-19
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A group of about 30 protesters took to the sidewalk outside the Las Cruces City Hall on Friday to demand that the state reopen. “The lockdown is more deadly and more lethal than the virus we’re fighting,” said Tim DeGroat. “People are hurting. They need to get back to work
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Taxi companies have gone through some difficult times in recent years. Ride-share apps have deeply cut into their profits, and now the coronavirus pandemic is putting the whole industry at risk. “When it all started. our bookings dropped substantially,” Andale Ride owner Joe Olivar said. “Half of our drivers decided
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Some shopping malls and stores throughout the state of Texas reopened Friday as the state allowed, including the Cielo Vista Mall in east El Paso. Cielo Vista general manager Shawna Thompson, told ABC-7 she was “very glad to reopen.” She said while the mall let shoppers back in, it was also
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso health officials reported three more deaths Thursday night, bringing the county’s death count to seven over the past two days for a total of 21 fatalities. With deaths increasing by 50% over the past 48 hours, city/county officials issued a new order mandating that everyone wear face masks while out
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FORT BLISS, Texas — Commanders at the Fort Bliss U.S. Army post on Thursday evening described the number of coronavirus cases there as “very low,” without the ability to provide exact numbers because of a Pentagon prohibition. But military officials cautioned they weren’t “declaring victory” just yet, and senior commander Brig. Gen Matt Eichburg extended
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EL PASO, Texas — Aerosols, they are everywhere and they may be carrying Covid-19. Aerosols and droplets passing from one person to the next are believed to be the reason the novel coronavirus is a global pandemic. “Aerosols are finer, finer airborne particles,” El Paso infectious disease specialist Dr. Antonio Ortega said. “They sat in
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham held a news conference Thursday afternoon to officially announce her decision to extend the state’s stay-at-home order related to the coronavirus pandemic. The governor’s current order was set to expire Thursday, but she extended it until May 15. However, Lujan Grisham did amend her directives effective
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EL PASO, Texas — Lawyers representing women released from the El Paso Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility, as well as a lawyer representing women still inside the facility, offered up a look Thursday at what they say conditions are like. Antonio Williams is the lawyer representing the very first woman who tested positive for
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces food pantry said Thursday that it will be adding more safety protocols after one of their volunteers tested positive for coronavirus. The executive director of Casa De Peregrinos, Lorenzo Alba Jr. told ABC-7 that employees, volunteers and vendors will have their temperatures checked before coming in the
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — New Mexico State University President John Floros told ABC-7 on Thursday that university administrators are planning on a way to safely bring students and staff back for the upcoming fall semester. University administration is collaborating with staff in each department to develop a plan by the time New Mexico’s stay-at-home
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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 Thursday, April
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso restaurant owners who aimed to transform the Union Plaza District downtown with their restaurant Tabla are now transforming the European-style meal sharing concept into something that meets the need of social distancing during the pandemic. It’s now called the Union Plaza Bodega. The owners held a soft launch earlier
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AUSTIN, Texas — State officials are expanding which out-of-work Texans can receive unemployment even after refusing to return to work during the coronavirus pandemic, according to new guidance released by Gov. Greg Abbott’s office. The relaxed guidelines came on the eve of some businesses and restaurants reopening Friday in the first phase of Abbott’s plan to re-start the
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EL PASO, Texas– Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has said that restaurants will be allowed to open on Friday. This comes as some in the Borderland would like to return to eating at some of El Paso’s favorite dining hot spots. Abbott’s restrictions for re-opening restaurants include that they can only re-open to 25% capacity and all
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WASHINGTON,DC — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a proclamation to make May ‘Older American’s Month,’ and outlined steps his administration is taking to protect seniors as nursing home coronavirus outbreaks persist. The president said the federal government in undertaking efforts to safeguard nursing homes, including having FEMA send supplemental shipments of personal protective equipment to
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KOKOMO, Indiana — This time, he wore a mask. Vice President Mike Pence donned a face covering Thursday as he toured a General Motors/Ventec ventilator production facility in Indiana after coming under fire for failing to wear one earlier this week in violation of Mayo Clinic policy. Pence on toured the General Motors facility in Kokomo, which
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EL PASO, Texas — A virtual vigil was held Wednesday night for Karla Dominguez, a pediatric intensive care nurse at the Hospitals of Providence, who died two weeks after she tested positive for Covid-19.A prayer from Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz opened the vigil followed by co-workers who described by Dominguez as dedicated to her job
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EL PASO, Texas — More than 300 people have recovered from Covid-19 in El Paso County as of Thursday morning. Health leaders in the area are urging those people to help others infected with the virus by donating plasma. Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare is part of a nationwide study to determine if plasma from
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Amid the deadliest day to date for El Paso during the coronavirus pandemic, with four new deaths in 24 hours, Mayor Dee Margo said the Borderland has not reached its’ peak. Graphing done by the city shows a slow increase in cases, but the decline has not yet started and local
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso health officials reported four new coronavirus deaths on Wednesday evening, bringing the total number of deaths to 18, on what was the deadliest day of the pandemic to date. The latest deaths included two men, one in his 50s and another in his 60s, as well as two women, each in
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