COVID-19 by the numbers
New Mexico health officials yesterday reported 96 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the statewide total so far to 192,595. The health department has designated 174,339 of those cases as recovered. DOH also reported 369 cases from the holiday weekend: 170 on Saturday and 199 on Sunday.
Bernalillo County had 49 new cases yesterday followed by San Juan County with 10 and Doña Ana County with nine. Santa Fe County had three new cases. Individual counts for counties from the weekend had not been provided by press time.
While the state said there were no additional deaths on Monday, four were reported over the weekend, including one from Santa Fe County: a woman in her 80s who was a resident of the BeeHive Homes Edgewood facility. There have now been 143 deaths in Santa Fe County and 3,953 statewide. As of yesterday, 85 people were hospitalized with COVID-19.