Navajo Nation Sees Coronavirus Cases and Deaths Rise Amid Lockdown
The lockdown was originally supposed to end Dec. 6, but due to the “alarming rise in positive COVID-19 cases and uncontrolled spread in 75 communities across the Navajo Nation,” according to the order, the reservation lengthened the mandate until Dec. 28.
The Navajo Nation on Tuesday reported 151 new coronavirus cases, bringing its total case count to 21,327.
The Navajo Department of Health also recorded seven more coronavirus-related deaths for the reservation that stretches over parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, with a total death toll of 755 since the start of the pandemic.
The Navajo Nation saw its worst infection case count report on Nov. 21, when the tribe confirmed 398 new COVID-19 infections in a single day. Its second-worst daily case tally was on Dec. 9, when the reservation reported 348 cases.
The Navajo Nation reported 160 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, as public health authorities continued the first round of vaccinations among the hard-hit Indigenous population in the southwestern United States.
A first shipment of roughly 3,900 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine that arrived on Monday and Tuesday was being administered to front-line healthcare workers and staff in long-term care facilities, Dr Loretta Christensen, chief medical officer of the Navajo Area Indian Health Service (NAIHS), told Al Jazeera.
“All of our major facilities in Navajo received a portion of vaccines, and all of them have been administering vaccines, with the anticipation of finishing all vaccines by this weekend,” Christensen said.
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