SANTA FE – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham headed a news convention since the construction of the state Capitol on Thursday afternoon to provide updates on the state’s reaction to COVID-19.
The convention included the main points of a modified public aptitude order that will take effect from Friday through mid-October and discussed the state’s reaction to the US Census. U. S. 2020.
The last convention held a week after an Albuquerque Journal vote found that 60% of the most likely electorate approved his administration’s COVID-19 reaction, but also indicated a partisan department on the subject: 84% of the Democratic electorate approved the response, while 63% of the Republican electorate disaffed. Among the unconnected electorate, 53% approved the state’s reaction while 31% de-approved.
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2:30 p. m. As soon as the feed starts, it will be available in the most sensible part of this article (these reports begin a few minutes after expiration and Facebook feed commentators are never short of reactions to this).
It’s 2:33 p. m.
2:37 p. m. With 159 new announced today, the total number of COVID-19s in the state since the first ones were announced in March is 27199, out of a total of 845,167 tests.
There are 69 patients with COVID-19 hospitalized and 14 of them want fans.
2:40 p. m. The state meets the maximum of its reopening criteria, assembling only the average of tests performed per day. The target is 5,000 consistent per day, but based on the existing seven-day moving average, New Mexico is 4,617. however, the governor is asking more new Mexicans to take the test.
“We need to be competitive in our tests,” says Lujan Grisham.
2:45 p. m. Another goal is a transmission rate of 1. 05 or less based on a 10-day moving average. New Mexico surpasses that, by 0. 89. State officials are satisfied with that.
Daily instances are also under criteria based on a 7-day moving average, a welcome trend.
Steerage updated as a component of public aptitude orders, effective Friday:
A reminder by the governor that masks are mandatory in public (swimming is an exception, but no other workout has, according to public fitness requirements).
2:50 p. m. La updated public fitness order will be in effect until mid-October.
The next goal for upcoming adjustments is to keep the spread and infection rates lower, allowing more study rooms to open and more business resumes.
A return to behavioral fitness needs, as isolation is useful for containing viral propagation but also creates behavioral fitness problems. A reminder to tap the NMConnect app or call 855-NMCRISIS.
2:57 p. m. New Mexico Department of Environment Secretary James Kenney discusses COVID-19 reaction program in the state workplace.
There were 2503 responses in the workplace, with a downward trend since August 24, less than 150 a week from 7 to 13 September.
“It’s a wonderful story for New Mexico,” Kenney says, then heads to the five most sensitive sectors that require quick answers: health, catering, retail and wholesale, structure and transportation/warehouses.
The fitness sector grew by one percentage point since 13 September with downward trends in others. Kenney expressed fear about him in public sector workplaces.
Kenney also welcomes the construction of protection practices against COVID, adding greater participation in a certification program for places to eat. More than 4,600 cases have been filed in public courts before the state, yet there has been a 52% relief in recent weeks. there are no place-to-eat license suspensions as of August 20 and no suspensions in effect.
3:03 p. m. La Director of State Personnel Pamela Coleman discusses state involvement in the U. S. Census.
Coleman reminds those who have not yet responded that they can stop at www. 2020Census. gov or call 844-330-2020 in English or 844-468-2020 in Spanish and 844-467-2020 for TDD.
The overall reaction rate is 88. 6% on Wednesday, the September 30 deadline is approaching.
It is the 10-year census that influences Congress and the allocation of federal resources, so the state urgently drives participation.
Coleman also urges the public to publicize census participation among family, friends and colleagues.
3:16 p. m. The Governor emphasizes that the census is “total and confidential,” seeking to counter fears of immigrant communities about their participation.
Regarding immediate testing technologies, Lujan Grisham said the federal government is moving generation to long-term care services and other physical care services, and that the state is tracking the results. She says lab tests provide maximum reliable information (in other words, unsightly nasal tests that saliva tests).
A journalist asks, why reopen more?Why is NM slowing down with downward trends?
Lujan Grisham mentions New Mexico’s gaps in fitness facilities and in line with capita diseases among the fields of knowledge that inform decisions about the speed of reopening. He also says that in terms of economic fitness, New Mexico is still comparable to Arizona, but its goal is to protect as many citizens as you can imagine from the virus.
3:25 p. m. Kenney says the average time to close a company with a quick reaction is about a day when the company cooperates.
“Most companies are very receptive to the joy that NMED brings them Array . . . through this process,” he says.
What can cause more delays is when it’s less transparent where a worker who’s become inflamed and who he’s come into contact with has been, he explains.
Immediate reaction knowledge reported through NMED is aggregated and come with knowledge of infections in schools, even though the Department of Public Education reports on infections on school campuses.
3:35 p. m. With respect to schools, the governor reiterates that rates of positivity and prevalence of the virus in the county indicate whether public school districts and autonomous schools can participate in face-to-face learning under the hybrid model, and that those districts and autonomous schools will have to have locally approved plans.
If a county’s positivity rates pass, “we may not back down” in authorization to proceed, the pin said. However, in excessive cases (which have not yet been observed), a local transitional cancellation would possibly be mandatory in an emergency. SHE didn’t provide this as likely.
There are immediate reaction plans that can close a school for about a day, he says, but that wouldn’t mean continuing services in person.
In conclusion, Lujan Grisham states: “We follow COVID-19 and, in many ways, win. “
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