{"id":47872,"date":"2021-03-18T18:16:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T00:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/san-juan-county-new-mexico-reports-zero-new-covid-cases-deaths\/"},"modified":"2021-03-19T00:16:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T00:16:34","slug":"san-juan-county-new-mexico-reports-zero-new-covid-cases-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/san-juan-county-new-mexico-reports-zero-new-covid-cases-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"San Juan County, New Mexico, reports zero new COVID cases, deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=40d3b3d0-6ea4-49db-9970-5bea7837f201&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1300\" height=\"978\" alt=\"A COVID-19 test kit at a drive-up COVID-19 testing site.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A COVID-19 test kit at a drive-up COVID-19 testing site.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>FARMINGTON \u2013 For the first day since September 2020, San Juan County went on record as reporting zero new COVID-19 cases and zero related deaths Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The New Mexico Department of Health issues an update each day with a breakdown of new cases and deaths by county. On Monday, San Juan County wasn\u2019t even named in the list.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman for the County Executive Office Devin Neeley said the county had \u201cno reason to believe the numbers are wrong,\u201d and that they hope they are correct.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cgreat sign\u201d comes within just days of the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 cases discovered in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a great sign to see no new cases reported (Monday) in San Juan County,\u201d said San Juan County Manager Mike Stark. \u201cWe are seeing the payoff of many months of COVID-safe practices to protect ourselves and our loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stark warned that despite the report of zero new cases or deaths, people still need to follow COVID-19-safe practices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne day with no cases doesn\u2019t mean that the pandemic is over,\u201d Stark said. \u201cWith continued COVID-safe practices and distribution of vaccines, we hope to see a future full of zero cases and zero COVID-related death days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:mmitchell@durangoherald.com\">mmitchell@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>since September the county bordering Colorado records no new cases<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[685,799,28,138,29,668,443],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-47872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-farmington","tag-headlines","tag-new-mexico","tag-newsletter","tag-public-health","tag-san-juan-county-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47872"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=47872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}