Navajo Department of Health COVID-19 website: ndoh.navajo-nsn.gov/covid-19
Navajo Health Command Operations Center: 928-871-7014
State coronavirus website: cv.nmhealth.org
Updates for Monday, April 5
7:04 P.M.: The Navajo Nation on Monday reported six new confirmed COVID-19 cases, but no deaths, the Associated Press reported.
The latest figures bring the pandemic totals on tribal land to 30,178 cases and 1,258 known deaths.
In all, nearly 16,500 people on the Navajo Nation have recovered from COVID-19.
Navajo Nation COVID-19 positive cases by Service Unit:
• Chinle Service Unit: 5,529
• Crownpoint Service Unit: 2,881
• Ft. Defiance Service Unit: 3,602
• Gallup Service Unit: 4,768
• Kayenta Service Unit: 2,677
• Shiprock Service Unit: 5,069
North Texas teens create a nonprofit to help improve hygiene and health in India
Hygiene For All is led by five students from Coppell High and TAMS.
Local students Vignesh Sanagala (from left), Lin Hlaing, Kelly Wheeler, Sahan Yerram and Jashith “Jay” Vanam set up the Hygiene For All nonprofit, which has raised more than $1,000 over the last year. Vignesh attends the Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton, and the others are students at Coppell High School.(Lawrence Jenkins / Special Contributor)
“I realized there was a lack of adequate sanitation and health care, especially with children,” Sahan says.
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14 Dallas County campuses temporarily halted in-person learning this school year due to COVID-19
Vague policies dictate when districts close down campuses for the coronavirus.
Caillet Elementary was one of 14 Dallas County campuses that had to halt in-person learning because of COVID-19 this school year. (Brandon Wade/Special Contributor)(Brandon Wade / Special Contributor)
Takeitha Thorn said it was an easy decision to send her son Zach back to Coppell High School for his junior year in early October. Zach struggles with attention deficit disorder and needs to learn in person to avoid distractions that otherwise derail his studies.
At the time, less than one-third of Coppell’s students attended school in person. Positive coronavirus cases were low but rising in Texas and numbers remained low on campuses.
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