Doña Ana County just 1 new virus case after deadly week; Otero Prison has 20% of state’s new cases

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico -- Following their deadliest week of the coronavirus pandemic last week, Doña Ana County on Monday not only reported no new deaths but also just one additional case.

Doña Ana County's cumulative caseload stood at 657 on Monday with six deaths to date, with half of those happening last week.

In neighboring Otero County, there was also only one new case reported among county residents for a total of 30. But new cases continued to erupt at the Otero County Prison, which recorded 29 new cases; along with the adjacent Otero ICE Processing Center, the overall case count in detention facilities - which are tallied separately - rose to 678.

The latest prison infections amounted to 20% of the 132 new cases reported across all of New Mexico, state health officials said Monday, bringing the state's total to 9,845. Statewide there were five new deaths recorded to take the fatality tally to 440.

Below you can see county-by-county data for virus cases and deaths across New Mexico. The data comes from Johns Hopkins University, so the numbers may sometimes vary a bit from what's reported by the state health department.