SANTA FE – New Mexico on Saturday reported 424 additional COVID-19 cases and eight deaths as the coronavirus outbreak in the state continued to slow.
The latest figures released by the Department of Health increased the state’s pandemic totals to 177,214 cases and 3,386 but rolling two-week averages of daily new cases and daily deaths both dropped over the past two weeks.
The rolling average of daily new cases dropped from 846.6 on Jan. 22 to 570.7 on Friday, and the rolling average of daily deaths dropped from 29 to 18.6, according to data from The COVID-Tracking Project.