SANTA FE – New Mexico on Saturday reported 185 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases with only two more deaths amid continued slowing of the coronavirus outbreak.
The state’s pandemic totals rose to 190,887 cases and 3,925 deaths as seven-day rolling averages of daily new cases and daily deaths declined over the past two weeks.
The rolling average of daily new cases dropped from 217.7 on March 11 to 191.7 on Thursday while the rolling average of daily deaths declined from 8.9 to 5.9 during the same period, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
Bernalillo and Sandoval counties each had one death from COVID-19 while Bernalillo accounted for about a third of the additional cases. Doña Ana, Sandoval, San Juan and Valencia counties also had double-digit numbers of additional cases.
