COVID-19 Cases Rise in Luna County – Community News

news7h11/09/2021

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Deming Public Schools Emmett Shockley Administration Building, 400 Cody Road.

DEMING — Coronavirus cases continued to rise all through the state this weekend, and Luna County was no exception. The province collected 60 new COVID-19 cases in the midst of the Saturday, Sunday and Monday weekend census by the New Mexico Division of Properly being. The province moreover reported 102 cases and one dying so far week. Each week earlier, 86 cases and one dying had been reported. In the midst of the pandemic, 4,117 cases and 96 deaths have been reported.

New cases of coronavirus are up 19.2% in New Mexico as 7,533 cases have been reported. The week sooner than, there have been 6,318 new cases of the virus that causes COVID-19.

New Mexico ranked seventh among the many many states the place the coronavirus unfold most per particular person, in response to a USA TODAY Group analysis of data from Johns Hopkins School.

The cases have been most notable in Luna County contained in the Deming Public Schools, the place the rise in cases might quick the varsity district to behave by shifting 4 extreme faculties to distance finding out from Wednesday, Nov. 10 via Friday, Nov. 12.

Luna County’s positivity cost is 11.75 based totally on 50 new COVID cases per 100,000 residents based totally on the New Mexico Division of Properly being’s findings for this week. In the midst of the colored tier concept, a 5 % positivity cost licensed for ‘Yellow’.

In step with positivity numbers posted on the varsity district’s website (demingps.org), 77 examined constructive in a whole of 12 faculties so far 14 days. Crimson Mountain Heart College reported 20 constructive cases of COVID-19. Enrollment is 950 faculty college students for a 2.11 % positivity cost of the inhabitants.

Deming Extreme College reported 17 new COVID cases. The faculty inhabitants is 1,423 for a positivity cost of 1.19 %.

Bataan Elementary College is the one totally different faculty in double-digit cases with 15. That that they had a positivity cost of two.54 % with a scholar enrollment of 590.

Early Faculty Extreme College had the easiest positivity cost (3.54 %) based totally on low scholar enrollment. Six new cases of COVID-19 have been reported among the many many 168 highschool faculty college students.

The Deming Public Schools is asking the group to help sluggish the unfold by following NMDOH suggestions:

• Stay away from being in large crowds or groups

• Wash your fingers usually with cleansing cleaning soap and water

• Accurately placed on masks indoors (masks ought to cowl nostril and mouth)

• Preserve a bodily distance of 1 and a half meters

• For those who’re sick (fever, chills, shortness of breath, headache, runny nostril) STAY HOME.

• Mom and father: preserve kids at home after they’re sick

• Preserve at home after you’ve obtained been examined and look ahead to outcomes

• Get vaccinated within the occasion you qualify.

Beforehand week, coronavirus cases in america are down 2.8% from the week sooner than, with 503,769 cases reported. With 0.63% of the nation’s inhabitants, New Mexico had 1.5% of cases inside the nation so far week. All through the nation, 22 states had additional cases so far week than the week sooner than.

Inside New Mexico, the worst weekly outbreaks per particular person have been in De Baca County with 1,545 cases per 100,000 per week; Grant County with 1,030; and San Juan County with 936. The Services for Sickness Administration says extreme ranges of group transmission start at 100 cases per 100,000 per week.

Most new cases have been added to Bernalillo County in full, with 1,808 cases; San Juan County, with 1,160 cases; and Dona Ana County, with 945. Weekly cases elevated in 22 counties from the sooner week. The worst will improve from the sooner week’s tempo have been in Bernalillo, Dona Ana and San Juan counties.