Grant County’s first confirmed case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, was reported to the New Mexico Department of Health early Tuesday afternoon by Dr. James Skee, after a test administered to a woman Sunday evening during a drive-up COVID-19 screening clinic came back positive.

The woman was flagged for testing during one of the daily drive-up COVID-19 screening clinics being held at Silver Health CARE in Silver City. Her infection is suspected to be travel-related, and the woman has been told to self-quarantine for 14 days.

“I think she’s probably through the worst of it,” Skee told the Daily Press, adding that “the New Mexico Department of Health will investigate and determine if anyone else needs to be quarantined.”

For more on this story and the status of COVID-19 testing in the area, pick up a copy of Wednesday’s Silver City Daily Press.