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New Mexico To Loosen Red-Yellow-Green Criteria And Sets Vaccination Goal For Removal Of Restrictions From the Office of the Governor: …Changes come amid nation-leading vaccine distribution effort; State approaching victory over the worst of the pandemic SANTA FE – State officials announced today that New Mexico will loosen the key health metrics used to assign risk levels to counties under the Red-Yellow-Green COVID-19 framework, as the state’s nation-leading vaccine distribution effort is over time likely to reduce the number of asymptomatic people seeking out and receiving tests for C...

Scrase: All NM better than yellow by June This map shows the color-coded map of county coronavirus restriction levels. Courtesy of the New Mexico Department of Health. New Mexico Human Services Department Secretary Dr. David Scrase isn’t clairvoyant, but during a Zoom media conference Wednesday, he predicted the entire state will be in either Green or Turquoise “by the end of May, at the latest.” But also that day, he indicated he was “disappointed” to see “nine counties that went backward.” Earlier Wednesday, the state Department of Health announced the updated statewide COVID-...

The New Mexico Department of Health updated its COVID-19 case outlook map noting Otero County reached gating criteria for the "green" level, allowing for the loosing of certain public health emergency orders. As of April 21, Otero County has a 2.54% positivity rate and 7.2 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents, putting the County in the Green for the first time since the pandemic began and the State of New Mexico instituted gating criteria. The downgrade in risk level was good news for Alamogordo High School seniors and those attending Alamogordo High School prom on April 24. "We have about ...

FARMINGTON — San Juan County remains on the Yellow level for the next two weeks after the statewide COVID-19 map was updated April 21. The New Mexico Department of Health announced there are 14 counties at Turquoise level, three at Green, 15 at Yellow and one county at the Red level, according to a press release. The average test positivity rate between April 6 and April 19 was 4.93% with an average daily case count of 17.70 cases per 100,000. The county averaged a test positivity rate of 3.16% and 9.30 positive cases per 100,000 people in the previous two-week period from March 23 to Apri...

LAVA Community Support Event Goes Virtual LAVA News: In order to ensure that the community can safely show support for victims, the Los Alamos Police Department’s Victim Assistant (LAVA) National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW) Community Support Walk will be a virtual event. There will not be an in-person event. At the Turquoise Level, an event can be held with a mass gathering limit of 150 persons, or 200 vehicles. The safest way to ensure that these limits are not exceeded is to provide t-shirts to individuals and individual families at a scheduled time and host a virtual event, ra...