SANTA FE – Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced some adjustments to the state’s COVID-19 public fitness orders at a press convention Thursday afternoon.
On Friday, restrictions on certain sports activities will relax, however, there have been no further steps to reopen limited advertising activities or operate at limited capacity.
Sports activities will be allowed for young people and others for practice and skill progression for up to 10 participants in a group, but touch sports are not yet allowed.
Ice rinks will be allowed for hockey and figure skating categories and teams by appointment, and the pools, which were allowed to swim only in the hallways, can now open up to 10 more people at a time.
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Camps will be allowed for state citizens in state parks open from October 1, but no more than 10 people in a group.
In an announcement in the agri-food sector, the state will allow the exploitation of harvested pumpkin plots in compliance with state regulations on COVID-19 protocols for agrotourism companies.
Amended public aptitude orders will be in effect until mid-October, Lujan Grisham said. However, past adjustments are imaginable based on new advances in COVID-19, the disease caused by sarS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
The ads accompanied some other week of more commonly positive news about disease progression in the state.
The data presented at the convention indicated that New Mexico met all of its reopening criteria, without exceeding the number of tests conducted daily. The target is 5,000 consistent with the day, however, in the existing seven-day moving average, New Mexico is 4,617.
Lujan Grisham took the opportunity to urge New Mexicoans to touch the offices of their local fitness department to organize loose testing, a key to the state’s COVID-19 strategy.
Because Americans can transmit the virus without symptoms appearing for several days, the tests aim to identify and isolate positive Americans while dealing with non-public contacts that may also bring the virus.
Another purpose is a transmission rate of 1. 05 or less in a 10-day moving average. New Mexico exceeds it by 0. 89.
Despite these trends, Lujan Grisham said the administration had to reopen too quickly, which raised vulnerabilities in New Mexico’s health care formula on the occasion of an increase in cases. -swimming, ing that knowledge showed that the mask was effective in slowing down the spread of the community.
Read more: Read our Thursday press convention blog and watch the video.
The convention came a week after an Albuquerque Journal ballot found that 60% of the electorate probably approved their administration’s COVID-19 response.
The vote also unfaught a transparent partisan divide on the issue, with 84% of the Democratic electorate approving the Democratic governor’s reaction, while 63% of the Republican electorate disapproved. Among un affiliated voters, 53% approved the state’s reaction while 31% de-approved it.
The Republican Party of New Mexico criticized the administration’s response, underlining the economic effect on the public aptitude emergency.
“Knowledge shows that we are making it bigger than our neighboring states, but the governor refuses to allow our economy to re-open, basing its decisions on its “science,” New Mexico Republican President Steve Pearce wrote Thursday. means that more academics will remain behind because they cannot attend classes; bars and entertainment venues remain closed and many restaurants and other businesses suffer from the limited capacity they have imposed. Our tourism industry is dying and quarantines remain in place. . “
The State Department of Health announced 159 new COVID-19s on Thursday, bringing the total to 27,199 with 836 deaths and 15,106 showing recoveries.
The state had conducted a total of 845,167 tests.
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