{"id":46909,"date":"2021-05-06T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/san-juan-county-moves-to-turquoise-level\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:36:00","slug":"san-juan-county-moves-to-turquoise-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/san-juan-county-moves-to-turquoise-level\/","title":{"rendered":"San Juan County moves to Turquoise Level"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FARMINGTON \u2013 The New Mexico Department of Health released an updated color-coded COVID-19 map this week that shows almost the entire state in the Turquoise Level.<\/p>\n<p>The department announced the update Wednesday and said there are only three counties operating in a level below turquoise. Catron and Valencia counties are operating in the Green Level, while Chaves County is operating in the Yellow Level. There are no counties in the Red Level.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f2780625-dff8-52f9-8e00-3d134dfe3767&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"559\" height=\"435\" alt=\"The New Mexico Department of Health updated its COVID-19 map to show San Juan in the Turquoise Level.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The New Mexico Department of Health updated its COVID-19 map to show San Juan in the Turquoise Level.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of New Mexico Department of Health<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>San Juan County finally made the climb back to the Turquoise Level after  it fell to the Yellow Level.<\/p>\n<p>San Juan County currently averages 28.8 cases per 100,000, a positivity rate of 7.4%, and a fully vaccinated rate of 53.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Turquoise Level, many restrictions have been lifted. Essential businesses have no capacity restrictions; essential retail spaces can operate at 75% capacity for indoor occupancy and 100% for outdoor occupancy; food and drink establishments can operate at 75% indoor occupancy and outdoor dining if the restaurant is NM Safe Certified; large entertainment venues can operate at 33% maximum capacity indoors and 75% outdoors; recreational facilities can operate at 50% capacity indoors and 75% outdoors; bars and clubs can now operate at 33% capacity indoors and 75% outdoors; all other businesses can operate at 75% capacity indoors and no restrictions outdoors; houses of worship can operate at 100% capacity indoors or outdoors \u201cshould they so choose\u201d; places of lodging that are NM Safe Certified do not have a restriction, however, other lodgings are capped at 50% capacity; and finally, mass gatherings are limited to 150 people, up from 20 last week.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-122fa1c512757a70de86ed0b0b7c0e6d\"><a href=\"mailto:mmitchell@durangoherald.com\">mmitchell@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>restrictions lifted as a result<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[685,799,28,443],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-46909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-farmington","tag-headlines","tag-san-juan-county-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87081,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46909\/revisions\/87081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46909"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=46909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}