SANTA FE – Health officials in New Mexico reported 136 more coronavirus cases around the state Sunday and three more known deaths.
The increases raised New Mexico’s total number of cases to 10,565 and the death toll to 469.
Department of Health officials said 41 of the new cases involve state or federal inmates at the Otero County Prison Facility in southern New Mexico.
They said 30 other confirmed cases were reported in McKinley County in northwestern New Mexico.
Two women in their 50s who were McKinley County residents accounted for two of the three new deaths with the third being a San Juan County man in his 70s. All had been hospitalized with underlying medical conditions.
Health officials said 4,684 people who had COVID-19 in New Mexico have recovered.
For most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks.
But for some – especially older adults and people with existing health problems – it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia and death.
