New Mexico eases hotel limits, quarantine mandates for visitors from COVID-19 low-risk states
SANTA FE — Travelers from states at lower risk for COVID-19 disease will be exempted from New Mexico's mandated quarantines beginning Friday, and some hotels will be permitted to expand their occupancy from 50 to 75 percent of their capacity.
Under current emergency rules, all visitors from outside New Mexico are required to self-isolate for 14 days as a precaution to slow the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes COVID-19.
On Thursday, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issued a revised executive order specifying that the 14-day isolation applies to anyone arriving from states with a 5 percent or greater test positivity rate or a new case rate greater than 80 per one million residents, based on a seven-day rolling average.
That standard applied to 37 U.S. states or territories on Thursday, according to the governor's office, including New Mexico's neighboring states of Arizona, Texas and Utah, but not Colorado.
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