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Udall, Heinrich Vote for Coronavirus Emergency Bill To Provide Immediate Public Health And Economic Relief To New Mexicans

CONGRESSIONAL News:

  • Bill provides direct financial support to struggling New Mexicans and small businesses, hospitals and health care workers
  • Also includes reimbursement for state and Tribal expenses due to pandemic

WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich voted to pass a major, bipartisan emergency COVID-19 response bill to provide immediate and badly-needed relief to New Mexicans grappling with the coronavirus pandemic.

The $2 trillion package includes key provisions to support New Mexico, including: direct payments to individual New Mexicans and a Read More

Skolnik: In An Outbreak, Delays Kill

By RICHARD SKOLNIK
Los Alamos

As our governor has correctly and repeatedly said, the US federal government is still failing to address COVID-19 with sufficient urgency. In an outbreak, every day of delay leads to cases and deaths that should never occur. In due course, history will correctly attribute many of these deaths to government indifference, delays, and incompetence.

In states like New Mexico, more people filed for unemployment last week than at any time in history, including the great depression. Jobless claims for the US as a whole rose from 70,000 to over 280,000, as COVID-19 began Read More

LANL Limits Onsite Operations Consistent With CDC; State

While Los Alamos National Laboratory is not closed, the Lab is limiting onsite operations consistent with guidance from the CDC and the State of New Mexico. The vast majority of LANL employees are working from home. Onsite, the Lab is maintaining a minimum staff to support limited, key national security activities that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has deemed mission-essential. This is a view of a LANL parking lot showing a reduction in the normally high number of vehicles. Courtesy/LANL Read More

New Mexico COVID-19 Cases Now At 112

STATE News:

SANTA FE – New Mexico Department of Health officials today announced 13 additional positive tests for COVID-19.
Per the state Department of Health, the most recent cases are:
Five new cases in Bernalillo County:
  • A male in his 20s
  • A female in her 40s
  • A male in his 40s
  • A female in her 70s
  • A female in her 80s
One new case in Eddy County:
  • ​A male in his 70s – deceased. As previously reported Wednesday by the Department of Health, this individual died Sunday, March 22. The state laboratory confirmed a positive COVID-19 test late Tuesday, March 24, after receiving it the same day.
Two new cases in
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