Mass testing at El Paso County jails has revealed 174 COVID-19 cases among inmates, Sheriff Richard Wiles said Monday. The sheriff said 155 inmates at the Downtown jail have tested positive, along with 19 at ...
El Paso’s COVID-19 crisis reached alarming levels in the past week, shattering the record for new cases and reporting 200 COVID-19 patients in hospitals for the first time. The number of COVID-19 infections reported in ...
El Paso County for the first time has gone over 1,000 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases in a week, with two days in the week remaining. COVID-19 cases requiring hospital care and treatment in intensive care ...
Forty inmates and five detention officers have tested positive in recent days for COVID-19 at El Paso’s two county jails. Sheriff Richard Wiles said the infections appear to be happening in the community. “All of ...
The nationwide calls for criminal justice reform are having little if any impact on the Democratic runoff race for El Paso’s next district attorney. The two candidates, Yvonne Rosales and James Montoya, say they’ve been ...
El Paso County reached new highs for weekly COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations last week, creating a deepening public health crisis. Here’s our weekly look at El Paso’s data. Young adults People in their 20s and ...
El Paso County reported 233 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, a new single-day high that indicates a deepening public health crisis. The number of people hospitalized with effects of the novel coronavirus also is nearing ...
El Paso County reported 175 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the week’s total through five days to 644. That’s the highest weekly number ever for El Paso. El Paso, which had never previously had ...
El Paso had one of its worst weeks since the COVID-19 pandemic began, with a high in reported deaths, hospitalizations beginning to rise after more than two weeks of decline, and the number of new ...
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requires nursing homes to provide weekly updates on the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths among residents and staff. The most recent weekly update, through June 7, ...
An El Paso truck driver was arrested this week after he allegedly made threats on YouTube about shooting Black Lives Matter supporters, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. Manuel Flores, 42, is charged with one ...
El Paso is seeing some positive indicators with COVID-19 as hospitalization numbers have shown a slow but consistent decline over the past two weeks. The number of new reported deaths was a five week low. ...
A West-Central El Paso nursing home that has had 126 COVID-19 cases, including two deaths, failed to provide adequate personal protective equipment to staff in the weeks leading up to the outbreak, employees say. Their ...
Our weekly update on COVID-19 data is below, but first we want to offer some concerns about the data as it is released by the city government. On Thursday, the city announced 197 new COVID-19 ...
El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz was returning from saying Mass at about 9:30 Wednesday morning when his cell phone rang. The caller ID said “restricted.” “The Holy Father would like to speak to you. What ...
El Paso’s average temperature last month was 79.5 degrees, tying for the second-hottest May on record. The only hotter May came in 1996, when the average temperature was 80.1. May 2018 also had an average ...
A crowd of more than 1,000 marched from Memorial Park to the El Paso police headquarters on Sunday in a mostly peaceful but sometimes tense protest of the deaths of George Floyd and other African-Americans ...
Officials at a West-Central El Paso nursing home confirmed a COVID-19 outbreak but aren’t disclosing how many residents and employees have been affected. Twelve residents and an unspecified number of employees tested positive in an ...
This story has been updated with COVID-19 case reports as of Monday, May 25. A surge in COVID-19 cases in West-Central El Paso’s 79902 ZIP code may be concentrated at the Mountain View Health and ...
Friday marks 11 weeks since El Paso’s first confirmed COVID-19 case, though the infection almost certainly was present before it was officially detected. Here is what the data tells us about the current state of ...
Like most people, Ana and Eddie Gonzalez closely followed developments as COVID-19 swept across the globe. “I remember having discussions with my husband about how sad it was that people were going into the hospital ...
This story has been updated with comment from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Sixty-five detainees and employees been infected by COVID-19 at a private incarceration facility near Chaparral, health officials say, one of the worst outbreaks ...
This story has been updated with numbers as of Wednesday, May 20. At least 139 of El Paso County’s COVID-19 infections come from an outbreak at the Rogelio Sanchez State Jail in Far East El ...
More than 50,000 El Pasoans have filed new unemployment claims since mid-March as COVID-19 continues to ravage the economy, according to Workforce Solutions Borderplex. About 357,000 El Pasoans were employed as of February, according to ...
We’ve been tracking El Paso County COVID-19 infection rates by ZIP code for several weeks. We’re adding Doña Ana County ZIP codes for a better regional picture. El Paso and New Mexico governments have released ...
Cover illustration by Ana Gaby Becerra Data in this story is the most recently available as of Wednesday, May 20. Friday marks nine weeks since El Paso’s first reported COVID-19 case, and two weeks since ...
The number of confirmed COVID-19 in Central El Paso’s 79903 ZIP code doubled in the past week, giving the area the second highest infection rate in the county, an El Paso Matters analysis shows. The ...
Six women will be freed from an El Paso immigration detention facility on Wednesday, five days after they alleged that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was putting them in danger to COVID-19 The six detainees filed ...
UPDATE: Sammy Carrejo, the organizer of the “Open Texas” rally, posted video on Facebook on Monday of police officers coming to his house to issue him a citation for not having a required permit and ...
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