SANTA FE – New Mexico officials expressed cautious optimism Thursday about a downward trend in COVID-19 across the state over the past two weeks.
However, they suggested citizens claim premature victory and said that the slow reopening of existing business and other activities of public aptitude orders depended on compliance with those guidelines.
They also issued an urgent appeal to the people of New Mexico to respond to the U.S. census if they have already done so.
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham ran a press convention that aired live since the construction of the state Capitol on Thursday afternoon.
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The current public aptitude orders last until August 28, and the administration has defended its movements in the courts, with the New Mexico Restaurant Association and several corporations delaying closures, occupancy limits and other restrictions, as well as state enforcement measures.
The seven-day state average for new daily instances is 174 on Thursday, bringing the state closer to Lujan Grisham’s 168 target, an improvement from June and July, when the state experienced sharp increases.
The State met all other criteria for the reopening of advertising activity, adding the availability of hospital beds and extensive care units, the provision of protective equipment for the medical body of workers and other parameters.
But Secretary of State for Social Services David Scrase said he became involved with the transmission rate in southeastern New Mexico, adjacent to Texas, where daily interstate traffic remains higher and there has been resistance to public physical fitness orders, which come with the abstention of five-person social gatherings.or more and dressed in facial coverings in public.
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Management also stated that the resumption of face-to-face schooling would likely lead to a build-up of cases, even with strict and constant compliance with public aptitude guidelines.
Lujan Grisham also said that “control materials are difficult to find”, once the festival between states for control devices as well as non-public protective devices for medical staff will intensify.
He criticized the Trump administration’s reaction to the pandemic and the postponement of the U.S. Senate by reaching an agreement for COVID-19 relief, a flaw he said would harm new Mexicans.
“Let’s show the country what Neo-Mexican leaders are,” Lujan Grisham said, urging new Mexicans to hold and even their practice of washing their hands, covering their faces and abstaining from a giant circle of family reunions or Labor Day celebrations.
In the meantime, officials have urgently appealed to families to respond to the 2020 U.S. Census if they have not already done so.
New Mexico ranked 50th among U.S. states and territories.But it’s not the first time On Wednesday, with 560,000 families responding once in a decade before the September 30 deadline.
Census: The reaction time of the US census to the US.Hus He shortened himself, hastened to count residents
Knowledge of the census collected every 10 years affects state representation in the US House of Representatives.But it’s not the first time And the districts of the state legislature and represented a federal investment that amounted to $7.8 billion according to the year since 2010, according to State Director of Personnel Pamela Coleman, who chairs the New Mexico Census Commission.
This investment is going to systems such as Medicaid, infrastructure, public schooling and more.
“What’s at stake may not be greater,” Coleman said, adding that “we’re threatening to spend money” for every unresponsive family.
Widespread confusion over the filing deadline and considerations that the Trump administration failed to charge a citizenship in the census further confused that reaction in 2020.
Coleman noted that the 10-question census survey does not ask questions about the prestige of immigration or citizenship, nor do census officials knocking on his door if they have not yet sent it.
Respondents can also respond to the census online at www.2020Census.gov or by phone at 844-330-2020; 844-468-2020 (Spanish); or 844-467-2020 for people with hearing impairments.
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