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Near­ly eight months after the Unit­ed States’ first COVID-19 wave sparked a gov­ern­ment-ordered lock­down of com­mu­ni­ties and economies, a surge of coro­n­avirus infec­tions is caus­ing Amer­i­cans to be thrown back under harsh quar­an­tine conditions.

How­ev­er, not all gov­er­nors will be shut­ter­ing their states over fear of the viral infections.

The first state leader to reim­pose a lock­down appears to be New Mex­i­co Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who issued the order Friday.