SANTA FE – New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham held a news convention Thursday, a video of the construction of the state Capitol in Santa Fe, which offers the main points of the new COVID-19 public fitness ordinances that will take effect on Saturday, adding new regulations for devout congregations and food. internal restaurants.
The convention also included updates on the transmission of COVID-19 to the state and the state cause criteria that guide decisions on reopening activity and adjusting restrictions.
Below is a convention blog as it developed.
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3:02 p.m. The convention temporarily does not yet appear to be any sound. The slides imply that the state is pronouncing 1nine0 new cases, 68 hospitalizations, 16 with insufficient ventilation and nine new deaths.
Ah, the sound clicked at 3:04.
3:05 p.m. The Secretary of State for Social Services starts talking, but his microphone doesn’t seem to be on. Scrase says statewide, the seven-day moving average has fallen to 118 new instances consistent with the day. Southeastern counties and Doa Ana County remain spaces of fear for new instances.
The age organization for COVID-19 infection is far away in the age organization from 20 to 29, at 20.1, consistent with the percentage of the total.
Scrase reiterates its warning to families for physical testing and vaccination and prepared for the flu vaccine. Do not do preventive care for worrying about COVID-19 situations in medical facilities.
While there is not yet an approved COVID-19 vaccine in place, Scrase says the state is already in a position coordinating the distribution of the vaccine and garage plans with the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when available, assuming it is in a position until early 2021. Dosages deserve to be limited and firstly limited to the maximum of vulnerable populations.
Scrase moves on to the subject of masks, which are still needed in public in New Mexico. Reiterates a warning that masks with valves or vents are not advised by the state or CDC. Facial screens, he says, are designed to cover the eyes and deserve not to be used as a replacement for the mask because they do little to the respiratory droplets that spread the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
3:20 p.m. New Mexico continues to achieve good results in assembling the variety criteria to qualify for further easing of public aptitude restrictions, Scrase said. In the national “How we reopen safely”, www.CovidSalirStrategy.org, New Mexico remains in yellow.
The spread rate in New Mexico is stable, with a rate of less than 1 new infection compatible with the case (meaning that the user with COVID-19 infects, on average, lately less than one user, exceeding a state goal).
The state processes more than 5,000 checks a day and the positive check rate is 3.4%, well below the 5% threshold.
3:29 p.m. Most counties now meet the criteria of consistency with the granting of appointments to make a stopover for citizens of long-term care centers, Scrase reports, because they are less than 8 average instances consistent with a population of 100,000.
With the reopening, Scrase continues to present a step-by-step technique based on new Mexicans that complies sufficiently with the rules of public fitness to continue the recent downward trend. “We have to be very careful,” he says. “We need to do the things we know will work.”
This comes with a warning about Labor Day weekend. Social gatherings pose a threat of network spread. “Have smart plans, make plans, be small and do the things we know we’ve worked on in the past,” Scrase says. This means staying at a distance of six feet, avoiding giant meetings and dressing in a mask on your nose and mouth.
3:34 p.m. The governor is dressed in a “Smokey Bear” mask to commemorate firefighters fighting wildfires in the state.
Details of the new public fitness order, which will take effect on Saturday:
Lujan Grisham urges consumers to “do their part” to apply new restrictions to companies later.
“I can’t make sure that the people of New Mexico, even with the control team we have, keep those promises unless they are willing to keep them,” he says.
3:46 p.m. With regard to public schools, Education Secretary Ryan Stewart says the aptitude and protection of students and is a priority in making decisions about resumption of face-to-face learning, even if there is “no substitute” for him.
The requirements for the resumption of classroom instruction come with New Mexico, which continues to meet the criteria and that the county is in a “green zone” measuring new daily averages of instances and verifying positivity rates.
Schools and districts were required to submit reintegration plans for approval through the Department of Public Education detailing education, social-emotional learning facilities, and communication with families. In addition, schools must have cleaning products and non-public protective equipment, cleaning hours and immediate infection reaction plans.
3:50 p.m. “The vast majority of our state is in the green zone, which is great,” Stewart said, referring to the map of counties that meet the criteria for schools on September 8. “The more mask we can wear, the more we can practice. social distancingArray.. we can turn more of those red counties green. Array.. We’ll just bring back the academics who are in those green areas.”
3:58 p.m. School closure plans to respond to COVID-19 infections vary depending on whether the instances are remote in a wing or a wing of a building. If there are multiple cases in a school building, the school will be closed.
“We have a big challenge ahead of us,” Stewart says, “because of the complexity of every school site and the risk outlook. Distance learning is also available to families who do not bring their children school in person without delay.
Stewart also recognizes that there are still gaps for many academics in distance learning, adding broadband in many parts of the state.
It refers to one of the key and demanding situations that schools face when presenting their reaction to COVID-19: whatever the plan, schools are legally required to provide equitable services to all young people in New Mexico, adding students with special needs.
Scrase says the modeling team focused on the scenarios for reopening the school. “Safe school reopenings happen in places for COVID,” he says, referring to the new average daily instance heat map and testing the county’s positivity. There are six counties in red, adding Hidalgo and five counties southeast on the Texas border. Luna and Curry counties are yellow. All other counties are green or Array
4:05 p.m. Before answering questions, Lujan Grisham says states have left the act to respond to the pandemic in the absence of a coordinated federal response.
“We know that Array’s students and parents … they are looking ahead for the resumption of learning in person,” he says, before reiterating that they do not require schools to resume in-person learning immediately, noting that some school districts have already voted to unless you return to school. school buildings.
“This is all great news,” the governor says, “but the virus is still there,” and he says that as winter approaches, there will be more activity inside. “We have to do the internal component right,” he says.
4:18 p.m. Scrase said recent fluctuations in high and low instances reflect, in part, some recent disorders with automated lab knowledge transfers, and reminds a reporter who is examining positive verification rates and seven-day moving averages to get a more reliable picture of how the virus is moving across the state.
Stewart asks about plans to reopen the school, which prioritize younger students who want a face-to-face connection before their development.
The clerk says models and thresholds are designed for conditions where education would likely have to be closed if instances are accumulated in a county, based on longer trends, for the “yo-yo” between openness and final schools.
4:29 p.m. Lujan Grisham again stresses the need for New Mexicans to be vaccinated for flu and to make sure children are current on mandatory vaccinations for school and that confidence in COVID-19 vaccination will be a matter of debate when it is available.
Scrase notes that the effectiveness or side effects of a COVID-19 vaccine is not yet known and stated that the state would depend on public education than on the mandates to publicize vaccination. He says he’ll line up for the vaccine when he’s ready.
Stewart says about a third of the state’s bylaws have had their re-entry plans approved through the PED.
4:47 p.m. Both the governor and Stewart say that school districts that vote in favor of delaying face-to-face learning until 2020 are doing so with misleading and confusing decisions, and explicit sympathy for parents who do not flee home and seek to provide attention to young people. while running.
With regard to medical and non-medical PPE supply chains, such as the autumn and winter technique and the construction of indoor activities, schools are making plans to return and industry restrictions are eased, Lujan Grisham is convinced that advertising markets are now of origin. compared to the first months of the crisis.
“Today, with the amount of PPE that the state must have in its inventory and the formula we use to evaluate combustion rates, where it is, who to give it to, how much is left and how much it will come in, I have a high degree of confidence that New Mexico is in a very smart position “for myP public supplies,” the governor said.
Scrase notes that federally approved decontamination facilities for the cleaning and reuse of PPE are widely used in New Mexico.
“I would have liked the source chain to have responded as well with laboratory devices as with masks and PPE,” he says.
4:52 p.m. Between a third and part of the cases in New Mexico have been asymptomatic, Scrase said, after the governor expressed a word war with the state’s recent CDC rules that recommend that others who don’t have COVID-19 symptoms don’t want to get tested. .
Lujan Grisham reiterates that the tests will be lost in rhythm to the new Mexicans.
17:00 h. Meow Wolf and escape rooms are included in all other museum restrictions that will take effect on Saturday.
Accommodation is still limited to 50 percent of its capacity.
The mask requirement remains in place, requiring a mask in public places, when eating or drinking indoors and outdoors.
Quarantine is maintained for out-of-state travelers.
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5:03 p.m. During the conference, the State Department of Health announced new COVID-19-related deaths, raising the death toll to 764 to date.
Since March, a total of 24,920 cases have been shown, out of 740,366 tests. The DOH has known 12,446 cases as recovered, and the actual number is likely to be higher, as Americans do not remain in contact with doH throughout the process.
In this note, Lujan Grisham begs new Mexicans to answer the phone when the DOH calls.
5:23 p.m. While the convention is still ongoing, the State Republican Party struggles to ask what clinical foundation has been derived from the express limits of capacity for church attendance and indoor service, calling the boundaries “arbitrary” and unfair to restaurants and stating, “There is no” science to decide that number.”
President Steve Pearce commented on the party that the governor had “pushed the barriers of what is legal and constitutional around this economic crisis,” but just yesterday, the state Supreme Court unanimously made a decision to justify the administration’s strength to limit indoor food to a public gymnasium. Emergency.
As Judge Judith Nakamura announced the court decision, he said, “It is well established that dissenting reviews make actions arbitrary and capricious.”
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