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SANTA FE – The New Mexico congressional delegation is raising questions about a COVID-19 outbreak among a group of Oregon Army National Guard soldiers who returned to their home base in El Paso after being deployed to Kosovo earlier this year.
In a letter to the Pentagon, the state’s senators and Congress members said 70 infantry soldiers had tested positive for the coronavirus as of Tuesday, a jump from 10 on Friday.
“We have also learned that dozens more are showing symptoms consistent with coronavirus and remain concerned about self-isolation and quarantine conditions the Army has put into place while monitoring and treating these service members,” the delegation wrote in the letter to U.S. Army Secretary Ryan D. McCarthy.