New Mexico recently changed the COVID-19 capacity requirements for essential retail spaces. | Pixabay
New Mexico recently changed the COVID-19 capacity requirements for essential retail spaces. | Pixabay
New Mexico recently changed the COVID-19 capacity requirements for essential retail spaces.
“Our priority is ensuring physical distancing in high-traffic areas, like stores that people must frequent to meet essential needs,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said in a press release on the Office of the New Mexico Governor’s website. “With colder weather here, we want to ensure that people aren’t gathering in lines for an unsafe length of time, especially in communities where there are fewer retail options for essential needs.”
The governor’s release states the amended capacity rules correspond with New Mexico’s recently implemented red-to-green framework in which individual counties can operate on one of three levels based on their risk of spreading the coronavirus.
Essential retail spaces can now operate based only on a maximum occupancy limit rather than placing a limit on the number of customers it can have at one time. Spaces can operate at 50% maximum occupancy at the green level, 33% at the yellow level and 25% at the red level.
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