• One case in Bernalillo County. The infected individual is a staff member who was last on school property Oct. 2. All staff members and the parents and guardians of all students in the affected school have been notified of the positive case.
• Four cases in Curry County. All of the infected individuals are students who were last on school property Sept. 29. All staff members and the parents and guardians of all students in the affected school have been notified of the positive cases.
• Two cases in Chaves County. The infected individuals are students who were last on school property Sept. 29 and Oct. 2. All staff members and the parents and guardians of all students in the affected school have been notified of the positive cases.
• One case in Doña Ana County. The infected individual is a staff member who was last on school property Oct. 2.  All staff members and the parents and guardians of all students in the affected school have been notified of the positive case.
• Two cases in Lea County. One infected individual is a staff member who was last on school property Oct. 5. The other infected individual is a student who was last on school property Sept. 29. All staff members and the parents and guardians of all students in the affected school have been notified of the positive cases.
• Two cases in Lincoln County. The infected individuals are students who were last on school property Oct. 1. All staff members and the parents and guardians of all students in the affected school have been notified of the positive cases.
• One case in Roosevelt County. The infected individual is a staff member who was last on school property Sept. 30.  All staff members and the parents and guardians of all students in the affected school have been notified of the positive case.
• One case in San Juan County. The infected individual is a student who was last on school property Oct. 1. All staff members and the parents and guardians of all students in the affected school have been notified of the positive case.
• One case in Torrance County. The infected individual is a student who was last on school property Sept. 29. All staff members and the parents and guardians of all students in the affected school have been notified of the positive case.

All “close contacts” will be informed of the positive case(s) and instructed to quarantine for 14 days.

Affected classrooms and facilities will be cleaned and disinfected. Staff must be tested if symptomatic or a “close contact”; however, staff members will not be required to present a negative test result in order to return to work.

Symptomatic staff may return to work after 10 days plus 24 hours after the fever is gone and COVID-19 symptoms have improved. Asymptomatic staff who have been “close contacts” may return to work after a 14-day quarantine.

The PED has collected this data since Aug. 17; since then, 256 total cases have been reported in 139 schools. Of those, 178 have been staff members and 78 have been students. (Please note an error in yesterday’s cumulative case number that should have been 241, not 341.)

For additional information about COVID-19 safety in schools, visit: https://bit.ly/SafeSchoolsNM.