Luna County COVID-19 update for Thursday, August 27, 2020
New cases: 32
Total cases: 307
Recovered: 113
Death: 5
Total tested: 7909
FYI: Today’s total (32) is the total number of instances in a day for the county
DEMING – On the day that New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham revised the state’s fitness order in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic, state fitness officials reported 32 new cases of coronavirus in Luna County. . instances of Bernalillo.
Thursday’s announcement is the county’s total one day, eclipsing the 18 reported cases on July 28.
State fitness officials also updated the state’s COVID-19 monkeys on Thursday. The new instances totaled 190 on Thursday and raised the state total to 24,920. A total of 12,446 new Mexicans recovered from the virus and 740,366 were evaluated. 19 related conditions are 764 and 68 patients hospitalized lately.
Governor Lujan Grisham and fitness and school presented a public update Thursday on the state’s reaction to COVID-19 and recovery efforts, describing a new public physical fitness emergency and New Mexico’s readiness for limited reintegration into in-person learning. Month.
New Mexico’s cause criteria, a measure of public knowledge about physical fitness that reflects the emergence and spread of COVID-19, show that the state has been a success in suppressing the virus while maintaining critical resources of reaction to the virus and physical attention at the end of summer.
While general COVID-19 infections in teams ages 20 to 29 and 30 to 39 remain higher than in other age teams, the rate of solid and decreasing positivity of the condition, the average number of instances and hospitalizations reflects greater adherence to vital behaviors that are for COVID , such as constantly wearing a mask and avoiding equipment and long periods of contact with others, said Human Services Secretary David Scrase, MD
The Secretary issued warnings about the potential devastating effects of the virus on fitness and the imperative to maintain behavior. “COVID-19 can cause very, very serious illnesses in other people of all ages, and we want to take this seriously in all facets of our lives,” Scrase said.
In line with the state’s continued progress in cracking down on the spread of the virus in recent weeks, New Mexico will allow some easing of occupancy restrictions while maintaining the public fitness framework for mitigating and responding to the emergence and spread of COVID-19.
The state’s revised public emergency fitness order takes effect on Saturday, August 29, and includes the following adjustments:
Places of worship can operate at 40 percent of the maximum occupancy of any enclosed building, and a 25 percent building, in accordance with COVID’s protection practices. Places of worship can, as before, offer outdoors or supply through audiovisual media.
• Catering institutions (including restaurants, breweries, wineries, distilleries, cafes, cafes or other institutions) would possibly provide catering service within 25% of the maximum occupancy. Arrange in accordance with COVID-Safe practices.
Food and beverage institutions may continue to provide options for outdoor dining, physically remote transportation, and delivery services, in accordance with COVID-Safe practices. Tables, indoors or outdoors, should be separated by at least six feet and no more than six visitors. are allowed at a singles table.
Although museums with interactive and/or immersive displays, classified as “recreational nearby contact facilities”, must remain closed, museums with static displays can operate at a capacity of 25%.
Massive meetings of more than 10 people are prohibited.
The order is effective until September 18. A signed edition of the document will be published on Friday, August 28.
“The new Mexicans are very proud of the progress we have all made together, but we must not forget that progress in our fight against this virus does not mean that we can let our guard down,” Governor Lujan Grisham said. Once a sense of complacency will support the accumulation of potential dangers to New Mexico’s families, neighbors, and communities, we will continue to do everything we can as a state to mitigate the spread of the virus and address the terrible economic consequences of this pandemic. .
“The virus is looking for opportunities to spread. We will have to continue to do everything we can to mitigate and eliminate those opportunities. Now we know the path to non-stop success: dressed in masks, avoiding groups, keeping a physical distance and washing our hands regularly. At the end of the day, I cannot force the people of New Mexico to respect these guarantees. We will have to make those decisions every day, and don’t forget that our movements have an effect on our frifinishes, families, staff and businesses in our communities and throughout our state. More and more of us are making the right decisions. Let’s keep it up. “
Public Education Secretary Ryan Stewart provided an update Thursday as the company works alongside school districts and autonomous schools across the state that comprehensive protection and reaction protocols opposed to COVID-19 are established before a district or autonomous school can be passed to start in a limited face-to-face manner. -face-to-face learning for K-5 teams after Labor Day.
The Department of Public Education has established the needs to reintegrate a “hybrid” style of in-person and distance learning, meaning that groups of rotary academics can attend in-person categories in small teams after DEP approval. that the state meets its control criteria; that the school county meets the criteria for controlling the rate of new daily instances of COVID-19 and positivity testing; and for the Department of Public Education to approve the individual reintegration plan for the district or the autonomous school, which should include safe COVID practices for academics and educators, as well as provisions of non-public protective devices, cleaning procedures and immediate reaction procedures in the course of a positive situation. Table COVID-19.
The Department of Public Education has won and revised proposals for the reintegration of state districts in anticipation of a imaginable transition to limited legal face-to-face learning after Labor Day.
At least 24 school districts and autonomous schools across the state, adding Albuquerque Public Schools, have informed the Department of Public Education that they plan to continue in an exclusively remote learning environment at least in the near future.
In the lead-up to Labor Day, in addition to raising awareness among local leaders and superintendents, the Department of Public Education will continue to review reintegration proposals before officially approving districts to begin categories for K-5 teams in a hybrid style ( middle school and high school age teams would remain the same if and when fitness situations warrant).
The company will provide more education to districts so that all schools are fully ready to interact in any possible early intervention; and finalize cleanup and sanitation protocols for districts and identify and refine control and inspection protocols with the New Mexico Department of Health and other state agencies. PED will launch an un named portal where violations of COVID-Safe practices can be reported.
“Our task has been to coordinate strongly with school districts and local leaders to ensure that we have strict and effective protocols to avoid positive cases and ensure that we can respond temporarily to any positive cases that occur,” Stewart said. ready a lot and I’m sure we’ll execute him. I have visited school districts, educators and local stakeholders. We are all a network and our unequivocal precedence – the protection and well-being of our young people and school communities – is shared for that purpose, we will also have to make sure that non-public protective devices are available. The state’s school districts have already purchased more than 3. 5 million masks, and PED and DHSEM will distribute another 700,000 masks over the next two weeks. .
“All of this is being used to allow districts to advocate for a face-to-face learning environment this fall,” he added. “Of course, the virus has radically repositioned our lives, and that includes our public education system, and it’s a massive burden on families, educators and young people. We will have to mobilize to give them the most productive and safe situation. Our purpose has been and will continue to be to provide top quality education to our young people with the first imperative suitability that face-to-face learning only takes place if and when each and every precaution for students, families and school communities. be in place. “
Bill Armendáriz contributed to this article. You can be contacted at 575-546-2611 (post 2606) or biarmendariz@demingheadlight. com.