Dr. David R. Scrase, cabinet secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services, said the state is also looking at ways to include how many people have been vaccinated.
‘We are conducting a fairly extensive discussion on how we can build up vaccination rates to help provinces move whether to keep it in the green or turquoise or whatever, so the discussions are part of a big discussion on gating criteria, red , yellow, green, and a kind of bridge – if you will – to the end of the pandemic, ‘said dr. Scrase said.
New Mexico continues to lead the country in administering the vaccine.
State officials said 50% of New Mexicans aged 16 or older received at least their first shot.
Dr Tracie Collins, cabinet secretary of the Department of Health, said the state would reach out to people who had missed their vaccinations.
“If you were invited and could not attend an appointment, you will receive an invitation again,” she said. “And for the elderly, disabled, it might consider calling 1-800-432-2080. It’s 1-800-432-2080. It’s support registration planning.”
New Mexico is closely monitoring COVID-19 variants that are spreading rapidly across the southwestern part of the country.
Scrase said New Mexico has seen 39 cases of the British variant and no case of the variants from Brazil or South Africa.