Governor Puts All Counties In Least-Restrictive Virus Status – Associated Press
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Wednesday issued a new public health order that places each of New Mexico s 33 counties in the least-restrictive category when it comes to pandemic-related mandates.
While state officials pointed to the decreased risk of COVID-19 transmission statewide, Lujan Grisham s administration acknowledged that five rural counties would have slipped back into the more restrictive yellow category within the state s color-coded risk system had it not been for the new health order.
The governor has set a goal of ending the color-coded system at the end of June, as long as 60% of residents are fully vaccinated by then.