Dona Ana County sees 4 of New Mexico’s 27 added virus deaths
SANTA FE, New Mexico— New Mexico on Saturday reported 1,442 additional known COVID-19 cases and 27 additional deaths.
Four of those deaths happened in Dona Ana County: a man in his 60s, two women in their 80s and one in her 90s.
The statewide totals increased to 128,930 cases and 2,155 as seven-day rolling averages for daily new cases dropped and daily deaths rose over the last two weeks.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University and The COVID Tracking Project, the rolling average of daily new cases in New Mexico dropped from 1,869 on Dec. 4 to 1,542.1 on Friday while the rolling average of deaths rose from 28.9 to 34.1.
On Thursday, when the state reported a pandemic-high 48 daily deaths linked to the pandemic, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said she was concerned that daily deaths could grow even higher over the year-end holidays.
“We are still in a dramatic set of circumstances,” she said as she urged residents to continue to take precautions against spread of the virus.
The number of overall infections is thought to be far higher because many people have not been tested, and studies suggest people can be infected with the virus without feeling sick.
