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New Mexico worries about tourists from Arizona and Texas, as many refuse to quarantine

Like governors in at least 15 states of the USA, New Mexico’s governor Lujan Grisham has ordered out-of-state tourists to self-isolate, citing data that about one in 10 of the state’s spiking COVID-19 cases comes from visitors. According to a Reuters report, enforcing the orders is proving difficult, given the lack of a national plan, police reluctance to take on the massive task, and Americans’ penchant for driving hundreds or thousands of miles to vacation, even in a pandemic. A US road trip this summer means navigating through a patchwork of quarantine regulations across various states, most of them voluntary. ... Read more