New Mexico health officials today reported 1,759 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the statewide total so far to 112,950. The health department has designated 40,058 of those cases as recovered.
Bernalillo County led with 601 new cases, followed by San Juan County with 209 and 124 in Santa Fe County.
Today's COVID-19 watchlist from the state environment department lists 129 establishments statewide that have had two or more employees test positive for COVID-19 in the last 14 days, including nine in Santa Fe: Cafe Castro; Chick-fil-A; McDonald's on Airport Road; the Netflix production of The Harder They Come; Pepsi Bottling Group; Sam's Club; the Santa Fe Animal Shelter; the Smith's Food & Drug stores on Pacheco; and Santa Fe High School.
The state also announced 34 additional deaths, including two from Santa Fe County: a male in his 80s who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions and a male in his 90s who was a resident of the Pacifica Senior Living facility in Santa Fe. There have now been 43 deaths in Santa Fe County so far and 1,823 statewide.
As of today, 917 people are hospitalized with COVID-19.* While the figure is slightly lower than yesterday (when 925 people were hospitalized), health and hospital leaders several times this week warned that New Mexico's facilities and workers are at capacity. Today's New York Times also cited Albuquerque as one of the cities in the US with the most dire shortages of ICU beds. Indeed, yesterday New Mexico Human Services Secretary David Scrase, accompanied by Dr. Michael Richards, vice chancellor for clinical affairs at UNM Health Services and Presbyterian Healthcare Services Medical Director Dr. Denise Gonzales presented information on what it will mean if the state moves toward crisis standards of care, as is expected to happen.
Meanwhile, the state environment department today announced it will begin a COVID-19 wastewater monitoring program at congregate settings such as corrections and Children, Youth and Family Department facilities in the southwest region of New Mexico. That region was chosen due to its high positivity and low testing rates, according to a news release.
In the initial phase of this program, the environment department and contractor ERG will collect samples twice a week from these facilities, which will be analyzed for concentrations of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes the COVID-19 illness). “Since the virus is excreted in bodily fluids before an infected person experiences symptoms, this data can be used as an early indicator of spread in the facility and a trigger to initiate testing of individuals at the facility,” the news release states. “Wastewater surveillance also detects when the virus is shed by asymptomatic individuals.”
New cases
- 601 new cases in Bernalillo County
- 1 new case in Catron County
- 49 new cases in Chaves County
- 20 new cases in Cibola County
- 10 new cases in Colfax County
- 29 new cases in Curry County
- 1 new case in De Baca County
- 119 new cases in Doña Ana County
- 35 new cases in Eddy County
- 10 new cases in Grant County
- 6 new cases in Guadalupe County
- 6 new cases in Hidalgo County
- 55 new cases in Lea County
- 10 new cases in Lincoln County
- 1 new case in Los Alamos County
- 11 new cases in Luna County
- 111 new cases in McKinley County
- 5 new cases in Mora County
- 30 new cases in Otero County
- 2 new cases in Quay County
- 53 new cases in Rio Arriba County
- 9 new cases in Roosevelt County
- 106 new cases in Sandoval County
- 209 new cases in San Juan County
- 14 new cases in San Miguel County
- 124 new cases in Santa Fe County
- 4 new cases in Sierra County
- 26 new cases in Socorro County
- 9 new cases in Taos County
- 2 new cases in Union County
- 65 new cases in Valencia County
- 1 new case among individual held by federal agencies at the Torrance County Detention Facility
- 2 new cases among New Mexico Corrections Department inmates at the Central New Mexico Correctional Facility in Valencia County
- 3 new cases among New Mexico Corrections Department inmates at the Guadalupe County Correctional Facility
- 3 new cases among New Mexico Corrections Department inmates at the Lea County Correctional Facility
- 15 new cases among New Mexico Corrections Department inmates at the Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility in Union County
- 1 new case among New Mexico Corrections Department inmates at the Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe County
- 1 new case among New Mexico Corrections Department inmates at the Roswell Correctional Center
New fatalities
- A male in his 50s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized
- A second male in his 50s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions
- A male in his 70s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions
- A female in her 80s from Bernalillo County who was a resident of The Watermark at Cherry Hills facility in Albuquerque
- A second female in her 80s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions
- A male in his 80s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized
- A second male in his 80s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions
- A female in her 90s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions
- A female in her 40s from Chaves County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions
- A female in her 70s from Chaves County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Mission Arch Center facility in Roswell
- A male in his 70s from Chaves County who was hospitalized, had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Mission Arch Center facility in Roswell
- A second male in his 70s from Chaves County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions
- A female in her 90s from Chaves County who was a resident of the Mission Arch Center facility in Roswell
- A male in his 60s from Curry County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions
- A male in his 50s from Eddy County
- A female in her 80s from Eddy County who was hospitalized, had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Artesia Healthcare and Rehabilitation facility
- A female in her 30s from McKinley County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions
- A female in her 60s from McKinley County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions
- A male in his 60s from McKinley County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions
- A male in his 70s from McKinley County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions
- A female in her 80s from McKinley County who was hospitalized
- A male in his 40s from Sandoval County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions
- A female in her 50s from Sandoval County who was hospitalized
- A male in his 60s from Sandoval County who was hospitalized
- A second male in his 60s from Sandoval County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions
- A male in his 80s from Santa Fe County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions
- A male in his 90s from Santa Fe County who was a resident of the Pacifica Senior Living facility in Santa Fe
- A male in his 70s from Sierra County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of the New Mexico State Veterans Home in Truth or Consequences
- A female in her 80s from Sierra County who was a resident of the New Mexico State Veterans Home in Truth or Consequences
- A male in his 90s from Sierra County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of the New Mexico State Veterans Home in Truth or Consequences
- A male in his 80s from Socorro County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions
- A male in his 40s from Valencia County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions
- A male in his 50s from Valencia County who was hospitalized
- A female in her 70s from Valencia County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions
Congregate facilities
The Department of Health has identified at least one positive COVID-19 case in residents and/or staff in the past 28 days at the following facilities:
- Adobe Assisted Living in Las Cruces
- Advantage Assisted Living in Rio Rancho
- Albuquerque Grand Senior Living
- Albuquerque Heights Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center
- Albuquerque Uptown Assisted Living
- The Aldea House – Heaven Sent LLC in Albuquerque
- The Arbors of Del Rey in Las Cruces
- Artesia Healthcare and Rehabilitation
- The Aristocrat Assisted Living Community in Alamogordo
- The Aristocrat Assisted Living Community in Las Cruces
- Aspen Care Assisted Living in Albuquerque
- Atria Vista Del Rio in Albuquerque
- Avamere at Fiesta Park in Albuquerque
- Avamere at Rio Rancho
- Avamere at Roswell
- Aztec Healthcare in Aztec
- Bear Canyon Rehabilitation Center in Albuquerque
- BeeHive Homes Deming
- BeeHive Homes Farmington
- BeeHive Homes Gallup
- BeeHive Homes Roswell
- BeeHive Homes Portales
- BeeHive Homes San Pedro in Albuquerque
- BeeHive Homes Volcano Cliffs in Albuquerque
- Belen Meadows Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Belen
- Blue Horizon Boutique Assisted Living & Memory Care in Las Cruces
- Brookdale Santa Fe
- Brookdale Tramway Ridge in Albuquerque
- Brookdale Valencia Albuquerque
- Buena Vista Senior Care in Albuquerque
- Calibre Sagecrest Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Las Cruces
- Camino Retirement Homes in Albuquerque
- Care Free Assisted Living in Albuquerque
- Casa Arena Blanca Nursing Center in Alamogordo
- Casa del Sol Center in Las Cruces
- Casa de Oro Center in Las Cruces
- Casa Palo Duro in Albuquerque
- Casa de Palomas in Albuquerque
- Casa de Paz in Rio Rancho
- Casa de Rosa in Albuquerque
- Casa Maria Health Care Center in Roswell
- Casa Mis Abuelos in Albuquerque
- Casa Real in Santa Fe
- Casa Sandia in Albuquerque
- Cedar Ridge Inn in Farmington
- Cielos Abiertos Assisted Living in Albuquerque
- Clayton Nursing and Rehabilitation
- Colfax Long Term Care Center in Springer
- Cuesta Manor in Albuquerque
- Desert Springs Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Hobbs
- El Castillo in Santa Fe
- Elite Senior Care Kathryn House in Albuquerque
- Fairwinds Assisted Living in Rio Rancho
- Fort Bayard Medical Center in Santa Clara
- Golden Hands Assisted Living in Albuquerque
- Good Life Senior Living in Lovington
- Good Life Senior Living in Artesia
- Good Life Senior Living in Carlsbad
- Good Life Senior Living in Hobbs
- Good Life Memory Care Los Lunas
- Good Samaritan Society – Manzano del Sol Village in Albuquerque
- Good Samaritan Society Grants
- Good Samaritan Society Las Cruces
- Good Samaritan Society Socorro
- Haciendas of Grace Village in Las Cruces
- Hannett House in Albuquerque
- Haven Care – Birch House in Albuquerque
- Haven Care – Cottonwood House in Albuquerque
- Haven Care – Fir House in Albuquerque
- Heartland Continuing Care Center in Portales
- Hilldale House in Albuquerque
- Ladera Center in Albuquerque
- Laguna Rainbow Care Center in Casa Blanca
- Lakeview Christian Home in Carlsbad
- Landmark at Desert Gardens in Hobbs
- Landsun Unit of Lakeview Christian Home in Carlsbad
- La Posada Assisted Living in Las Cruces
- Las Palomas Center in Albuquerque
- La Vida Llena Assisted Living in Albuquerque
- The Legacy at Santa Fe
- Life Spire Assisted Living Rio Rancho
- Life Spire Assisted Living Albuquerque
- Little Sisters of the Poor in Gallup
- Life Care Center in Farmington
- Lovington Healthcare in Lovington
- Kingston Residence of Santa Fe
- Mariah House in Albuquerque
- Mescalero Care Center in Mescalero
- Mimbres Memorial Nursing Home in Deming
- Mission Arch Center in Roswell
- The Montebello on Academy in Albuquerque
- The Montecito in Santa Fe
- MorningStar Assisted Living & Memory Care of Albuquerque
- MorningStar Assisted Living & Memory Care of Rio Rancho
- Mountain View Manor in Albuquerque
- The Neighborhood in Rio Rancho
- New Mexico State Veterans Home in Truth or Consequences
- North Ridge Care Center in Albuquerque
- Odelia Healthcare (Camino Healthcare) in Albuquerque
- Pacifica Senior Living in Santa Fe
- Palmilla Senior Living in Albuquerque
- Princeton Place in Albuquerque
- Pueblo of Isleta Assisted Living & Memory Care Facility
- Ravenna Assisted Living in Albuquerque
- Red Rocks Care Center in Gallup
- The Rehabilitation Center of Albuquerque
- Retreat Healthcare in Rio Rancho
- The Rio at Las Estancias in Albuquerque
- Rio Rancho Center
- Sandia Ridge Center in Albuquerque
- Sandia Senior Suites in Albuquerque
- Sandia View Cottonwood Assisted Living in Albuquerque
- Senior Living Systems in Los Lunas
- Shady Pines Assisted Living in Albuquerque
- Sierra Healthcare Center in Truth or Consequences
- Sierra Vista Retirement Community in Santa Fe
- Silver City Care Center in Silver City
- Skies Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Albuquerque
- Sombrillo Nursing and Rehabilitation in Los Alamos
- South Valley Care Center in Albuquerque
- Spanish Trails Rehabilitation Suites in Albuquerque
- St. Anthony’s Healthcare in Clovis
- Sundance Home in Gallup
- Sunny Day Assisted Living in Gallup
- Sunshine Assisted Living in Tucumcari
- The Suites at Rio Vista in Rio Rancho
- Sunset Villa Care Center in Roswell
- Taos Living Center
- Taos Retirement Village
- Tender Heart Assisted Living in Albuquerque
- Tercer Cielo Assisted Living in Albuquerque
- Uptown Rehabilitation Center in Albuquerque
- Vida Encantada Nursing and Rehabilitation in Las Vegas
- The Village at Alameda in Albuquerque
- The Village at Northrise in Las Cruces
- Village Retirement Community in Roswell
- Vista Hermosa in Santa Fe
- Vista Sandia Assisted Living in Albuquerque
- The Watermark at Cherry Hills in Albuquerque
- Welbrook Senior Living Las Cruces
- West Ridge Village in Albuquerque
- Wheatfields Senior Living Community in Clovis
- White Sands Healthcare in Hobbs
- Willow Manor in Deming
- Willow Wood Assisted Living in Albuquerque
Statewide cases
According to a state news release, previously reported numbers included nine cases that have been identified as duplicates (one in Chaves County, one in Colfax County, one in Curry County, one in Eddy County, three in Sandoval County and one in Socorro County) and two cases that were not lab confirmed (one in Lincoln County and one in Sandoval County)—these have now been corrected.County totals are subject to change upon further investigation and determination of residency of individuals positive for COVID-19.
- Bernalillo County: 31,963
- Catron County: 51
- Chaves County: 5,537
- Cibola County: 1,841
- Colfax County: 351
- Curry County: 3,494
- De Baca County: 69
- Doña Ana County: 14,998
- Eddy County: 3,392
- Grant County: 590
- Guadalupe County: 186
- Harding County: 7
- Hidalgo County: 204
- Lea County: 5,031
- Lincoln County: 897
- Los Alamos County: 189
- Luna County: 2,100
- McKinley County: 7,987
- Mora County: 60
- Otero County: 1,743
- Quay County: 287
- Rio Arriba County: 1,614
- Roosevelt County: 1,128
- Sandoval County: 6,196
- San Juan County: 7,211
- San Miguel County: 538
- Santa Fe County: 6,037
- Sierra County: 430
- Socorro County: 729
- Taos County: 951
- Torrance County: 388
- Union County: 152
- Valencia County: 3,717
Cases among people being held by federal agencies
- Cibola County Correctional Center: 417
- Otero County Prison Facility: 430
- Otero County Processing Center: 194
- Torrance County Detention Facility: 46
Cases among people being held by the New Mexico Department of Corrections
- Central New Mexico Correctional Facility in Valencia County: 229
- Guadalupe County Correctional Facility: 116
- Lea County Correctional Facility: 154
- Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility in Union County: 135
- Northwest New Mexico Correctional Center in Cibola County: 95
- Otero County Prison Facility: 471
- Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe County: 131
- Roswell Correctional Center: 225
- Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility in Doña Ana County: 177
- Springer Correctional Center in Colfax County: 58
- Western New Mexico Correctional Facility in Cibola County: 4
*Per the health department, hospitalization figures include people who were tested elsewhere but are hospitalized in New Mexico, but don't include people who were tested here but are hospitalized out of state.
