SANTA FE – The new public fitness measures that will take effect on Friday will aim to protect food and beverage institutions as well as retail businesses, and target those who become hot spots of COVID-19 disease.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced the new protocols at a press convention Tuesday afternoon that were not broadcast live on the governor’s official Facebook page, as standard for its weekly updates, due to technical issues. KOB-TV in Albuquerque broadcast it live and the governor’s workplace said a recording of the convention would be posted on the Facebook page.
After Friday, corporations that require two immediate responses to their sites within two weeks of reporting COVID-19 infections to the New Mexico Department of Environment will be included in a published watch list.
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After 4 hours of the same period, those corporations will have to stop their operations for 14 days.
Companies must inform NMED of the COVID-19 instances between them.
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Businesses subject to the policy include restaurants and breweries, retail establishments, hotels and nearby contact businesses such as gyms and lounges.
This is in addition to amended public aptitude orders that require institutions serving alcohol to close before 10 p. m.
On Friday, retail stores will close at 10 p. m. also, in an effort to inspire citizens to restrict outdoor businesses to their homes.
The state defines retail institutions as businesses that promote goods or directly to a visitor and include grocery stores and “big supermarkets. “
NMED Quick Responses is a workplace-advisory program on disinfection and maintenance practices after a worker becomes inflamed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
While COVID-19 cases have increased in New Mexico since Labor Day, NMED reported 832 immediate responses state-round between October 12 and 18, up from 611 last week and 419 last week.
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Lujan Grisham said the new needs were an effort to allow businesses to function while expressing geographic hot spots and companies with repeated COVID-19 infections.
In addition, the food and beverage institutions will have to keep a three-week diary of consumers who eat at the place from Friday, in order to contribute to the contact search efforts.
In high-risk counties, these institutions will also be subject to detection through their employees.
They will also have to complete a flexible COVID-19 state certification program for businesses by October 30 to continue offering indoor dining, limited to 25% of the fireplace code’s normal capacity.
On Tuesday, 79 food and beverage institutions were registered state-round, adding franchise chains.
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Among the hotels, restaurants and other companies that participated, Lujan Grisham said they “asked us to know what it is (the security program), what it can mean, and how it can help prevent COVID from taking over its business. “
State museums and historical sites will do so indefinitely on Friday.
The governor’s repeated message has been that New Mexico’s inhabitants are “lowering their guard” by complying with COVID-19 rules to wear masks in public and social gatherings, stay away from others, and wash their hands frequently.
To the knowledge of the state Department of Health, average daily infection rates are highest in both one and both regions of the state and across the age organization since Labor Day. of 525 new instances consistent with the day of last week.
The rate of positivity of seven-day trials in New Mexico of 6. 5% represents an increase of 91% since October 1.
Human Services Secretary of State David Scrase said fitness officers were “very concerned” about the increase in the number of COVID-19 patients requiring hospital care throughout the state, introducing knowledge that 81% of the hospital beds for adults in the system were occupied, of which 71% were 432 out of 605. , beds of the extensive care unit.
“Right now, we’re seeing a specific point of higher volume in Albuquerque,” Scrase said, adding hospitals that serve patients from other parts of the state. Monday night, for example, a COVID-19 patient in Deming transported to Santa Fe instead of one of Albuquerque’s facilities.
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State fitness officials were running to balance patients’ ability with other non-unusual physical fitness disorders in the state, such as the center’s disease, especially in intensive care care, Scrase said.
However, knowledge of new instances among school staff did not justify retaining existing rules for the resumption of in-person safety in public schools, Scrase said.
Lujan Grisham and Scrase at the briefing suggested that citizens restrict travel outside the home, and especially out of state, for essential health, protection and wellness activities. For trips away from home, citizens were reminded of the requirement to wear a mask in all public places, a limit to five social gatherings, even in private, and advice on how to stay two meters away from others and wash their hands frequently.
“We’re in a smart position right now,” the governor said near the end of the conference. “We have bad terms (but) we have the ability to do anything about it. “
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Once again, the state’s Republican Party rejected Democrat Lujan Grisham’s reaction, calling his administration’s reaction arbitrary and serious.
“We are confident that the governor intends, but his most recent restrictions will destroy business, destroy our economy, and continue to punish students, teachers, and parents,” the party said in a press release Tuesday, continuing, “Today’s restrictions: forced closures, threats, and mandates that will end more jobs, close more doors, and lead to more desperation. “
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