Presbyterian hospital medical staff conducts COVID-19 tests at San Mateo premises on February 4 (Adolphe Pierre-Louis / Albuquerque Journal)
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New Mexico added 275 new cases of COVID-19 and 15 deaths on Saturday, bringing the total death toll from the virus to 3,700.
The seven-day average of cases is 345, slightly higher than last week, but still significantly lower than earlier in the year.
Among the reported new cases are 105 in Bernalillo County, 31 in Doña Ana County and 16 in McKinley County.
The Lea County Correctional Facility has reported six new cases. The state-run prison near Hobbs reported 191 cases of the virus on Friday.
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Among those who died from the virus were a McKinley County woman in her 50s who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions, a Chaves County woman in her 60s who had underlying conditions and a man in Lea County in its 60s that had underlying conditions. Others were a woman from Bernalillo Province in her 60s and San Juan County in her 60s.
A woman in her 100s who lives in the Good Samaritan Society in Albuquerque also died from the virus.
New Mexico has reported 184,888 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. As of Saturday, 227 people had been admitted to the hospital with the virus and 143,774 cases had been designated by the New Mexico Department of Health.