New Mexico Governor: "We Can Not Allow Another Wave"

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and state officials urged New Mexicans today to abide by the current health orders as COVID-19 case counts and infection rates continue to rise across all parts of the state.

Today, the state surpassed its gating criteria for 168 or fewer new daily cases over a rolling seven-day average and hit 171; the statewide effective rate of transmission, which health officials want to hold at 1.05 or less, was at 1.27 as of Sept. 30.

Human Services Secretary David Scrase said officials are seeing "a much higher proportion of counties reporting COVID cases," with acute activity in Bernalillo County, in the southeastern corner of the state and "a large amount of activity along the eastern border between New Mexico and Texas."

Describing himself as "really concerned," Scrase also said he believes the current health orders are "sufficient to control this outbreak, but in order for those directives to work, we have to follow them."

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