LAS CRUCES – New Mexico added 467 COVID-19 cases to its account on Monday, the total in one day in the state. More than a third of these new patients are federal inmates at the Cibola County Correctional Facility.
The new figures come with 170 inmates at the Cibola Institution and 76 in Doa Ana County, raising the maximum population of the county in the southern component of the state to more than 2,000 cases in total.
This is the third day overall in Doa Ana County, which has experienced a relative peak in recent weeks. Lea County, with 25 new cases, and Otero County, with 21 new cases, are two other counties in southern New Mexico that recorded above-average positive tests on Monday.
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The state also reported 4 deaths more similar to COVID-19 on Monday, bringing the total to 619. Among the new deaths, a woman from Doa Ana County out of a hundred who had underlying situations and resided in the Society of the Good Samaritan in Las Cruces. It is the seventeenth death similar to COVID-19 in the county.
Since the state’s first positive COVID-19 control in early March, another 19,502 people tested positive for the disease. This represents approximately 3.7% of the 528,890 checks awarded. Approximately 38% of all patients who tested positive are now designated as healed. State reports 159 are hospitalized lately.
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The rate of positive testing in Doa Ana County is approximately 4.3% and of the 2064 patients who tested positive, about 37% were designated as cured.
Twenty-year-olds have more TESTS on COVID-19 than any other age organization. Statewide, this organization accounts for 20% of all tests, and in Doa Ana County, they account for 23%.
State knowledge shows that most cases in Doa Ana County are now in the Las Cruces metropolitan area.
At the beginning of the pandemic, most of the county’s instances were in the 4 zip codes bordering El Paso County, which recorded 13,327 cases of COVID-19 and 230 deaths.
As of Monday, about 38% of county instances were in the 4 zip codes bordering Texas, while 46% were in the six zip codes that make up the Las Cruces region.
The 170 instances at the Cibola County Correctional Center are the time of the outbreak at a correctional facility in New Mexico. A month ago, nearly 80% of all inmates in the state and a giant percentage of federal inmates at the Otero County Correctional Center were inflamed with COVID-19.
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The Department of Health has known at least one positive case of COVID-19 in citizens and/or in the last 28 days in various long-term care and acute care centers, and 14 are added in southern New Mexico:
Visit https://cv.nmhealth.org/ for information.
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