After New York and New Jersey, the place with the highest coronavirus infection rate in the U.S. is the Navajo Nation. Dr. Deborah Birx of the national coronavirus task force told the White House ...

America’s coronavirus divide is reflected in two New Mexico mayors. One asked for a lockdown. The other defied orders. Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez, 44, watching over the volunteer ...

Then a year ago, on March 17, 2020, Chilchinbeto became the first community on the Navajo Nation to report a positive case of COVID-19. Within days, the virus had begun to spread and with it ...

PHOENIX – Two years after the first cases of COVID-19 were detected on the Navajo Nation, the tribal government still requires masks in public, even as many cities and states elsewhere have ...

But one rural area has more COVID-19 cases per capita than nearly any other place in the United States: the Navajo Nation. The Navajo reservation is almost as big as the state of South Carolina.

COVID-19 cases are on the decline in the hard-hit Navajo Nation. The Navajo community suffered one of the highest COVID-19 infection rates per capita in the country just three months ago but with ...

On March 17, when the Navajo Nation saw its first COVID-19 case, the reservation's limited health facilities sprang into action. "We basically changed our hospital from an acute care hospital and ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading across the world, Graham Beyale at first figured he'd be safe inside his home along the dusty red dirt roads of the Navajo Nation reservation.

Navajo Nation may have the highest COVID-19 rates in the country. The only sounds left at the traditional Najavo hut where Dorothy Scott once lived, and her family recently returned, were the ...

COVID-19 is ripping through the Navajo Nation, infecting and killing people at rates that are above U.S. averages. Located across three states, the Navajo population is already vulnerable ...

The Navajo Nation, home to more than 170,000 Navajo, has been hit hard by COVID-19. More than 600 Navajo have died of COVID-19 in parts of three states, and daily positive cases are soaring.

The Navajo Nation is facing difficult circumstances as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases continues to rise throughout the community. As of Wednesday, the Navajo Nation had 1,282 identified ...