Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
SANTA FE — The bad news in Monday’s COVID-19 case update from the New Mexico Department of Health: Curry County registered 48 new cases between Saturday and Monday.
The worse news: The case count wasn’t even in the top 10 across the state, as a total 3,370 new cases were reported Monday.
The DOH report included 11 deaths, with none from Curry or Roosevelt counties.
Eight counties reported triple-digit COVID-19 cases on Monday, compared to five on the Oct. 2 weekend roundup. The leading counties were Bernalillo with 774 cases, Dona Ana with 561 and San Juan with 520. De Baca and Harding were the only counties not to report a new case over the weekend.
As of Monday, the state reported 425 hospitalizations for COVID-19, with 249,938 cases designated as recovered out of the total 286,086 reported since the pandemic began in March 2020.
