Laredo reduces media briefings, virus updates as hospitalizations hit new low April 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Healthcare professionals, volunteers, Laredo College associate degree nursing students and their professors help prepare and distribute the second Covid-19 vaccine, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021 at the Sames Auto Arena, to the Laredoans that received the first vaccine during the TAMIU COVID-19 vaccine drive-thru earlier this month.Danny Zaragoza/Laredo Morning Times With the City of Laredo experiencing a significant fall in COVID-19 infections over recent weeks, Emergency Management Coordinator Guillermo Heard announced that the city will be making its coronavirus updates much less frequently. There were 30 positives and one death announced on Thursday, bringing the overall totals to 43,229 positives and 820 fatalities dating back to the emergence of the pandemic locally in March 2020.