SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Each of New Mexico's 33 counties is now operating in the least-restrictive category when it comes to pandemic-related health mandates.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issued a new statewide public health order Wednesday as state officials pointed to a decreased risk of spreading COVID-19. Absent the order, five counties would have slipped back into the more restrictive yellow category.
Health officials reported an average of fewer than 100 cases each day over the long holiday weekend. Lujan Grisham plans to end the state's color-coded risk system at the end of the month as long as 60% of residents are fully vaccinated.