This state has a secret loophole Covid Lockdown

Your favorite stores can stay open as long as they do.


Nothing can compare to Covid-19 toll has had on human life, but companies have also been subject to the impact that theThe pandemic has taken their end. Thanks to a combination of lost fevers, logistical problems, a contracting economy and stops, companies of all varieties have been suffering from March 2020. But a state has found a way to move at least one of these problems . AsWall Street newspaperrecently reported,New Mexico officials areoffering some shops a way to stay open Even when their workers became infected by Covid-19. Here's what you need to know about the secret gap and for more information on the worst hotspots of the pandemic, discoverThat's how the COVID epidemic is in your state.

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New Mexico is under a stay order at home that includes the closure of non-essential businesses.

buildings and an empty street in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico at night
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November 13, New Mexico Gov.Michelle Lujan Grishamannounced a "reset" of two weeks that restoresStrict Covid Restrictions. Until November 30, new Mexicans mustshelterAnd no non-essential business can work in person. Meanwhile, essential companies must reduce operations and occupancy to the "largest possible extent".

As an essential service, grocery stores have been allowed to remain open, retailers like Walmart also exempts that more than a third of their income comes from food sales. And for national changes on this giant of retail sales, checkWalmart is now doing that as soon as you go to the store.

If four of its positive test employees, a store is obliged to close for two weeks.

A woman wearing a face mask putting up a sign in her shop that says closed due to COVID-19
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According to New Mexico's new Ministry of the Environment (NMED), under the new order, "Any" Food and Beverage Establishment ", Accommodation", "Retail Space" or "Essential Company" ... in which public members regularly visit, must immediately close for 14 days if there are four quick or more responses in the last 14 days. "

"If there are two or more quick responses within 14 days of prior calendar at a location, the company's location will appear on the quick response monitoring list", NMED notes. A list accessible to the public showsWhich companies have been closed and / or added to the monitoring list.

All of this is part of an attempt to curb the growing number of cases in the state. During the past week, there was aAverage of 2,240 new COVID cases a day In New Mexico, which marks an increase of 62% of the average two weeks earlier,The New York Timesreports. And for more COVID updates,Sign up for our daily newsletter.

But if a store is ready to test regularly and contact the trace, they can avoid closing.

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A new order of 24 November of the NMED and New Mexico Department of Health, announced that supermarkets, Big-Box retailers and hotels willing toPay the total cost for regular testing and contact tracing From their workforce can avoid this period of forced closure and stay open.

"Inciting businesses to participate in a regular monitoring test program, we keep new Mexicans safe, slowing the spread of COVID-19 and preventing additional closures from essential companies",James Kenney, NMED secretary, stated in a statement toWall Street newspaper. And for more information on the latest safety reviews, checkThat's when you should be tested for Covid after Thanksgiving.

The first store to opt was Albertsons.

A store front sign of the grocery store Albertsons
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On November 26,Albertsons was the first store to opt For its 34 locations across New Mexico, according to a KRQE report, a local CBS news company.

"We are pleased to reach this agreement with the state that allows us to welcome customers and associates to our stores", Vice President of the Albetson GroupJerry Nolandsaid in a statement.

In response, Kenney said: "Albertsons runs by the example" and the Ministry of the New Mexico of the Acting Secretary of HealthBilly JimenezAdded: "We look forward to working with Albertsons and other essential companies wishing to participate in the program." And for other retailers leading to another way, see Nordstrom became the first retailer to prohibit these products .


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