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The Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President<\/p>\n
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong> 79 new cases related to COVID-19, no new deaths reported<\/strong><\/p>\n WINDOW ROCK, Ariz.<\/strong> \u2014 The Navajo Department of Health in coordination with the Navajo Epidemiology Center and the Navajo Area Indian Health Service, reported 79 new cases of COVID-19 for the Navajo Nation and there remains a total of 59 deaths as reported on Saturday. The total number of positive COVID-19 cases for the Navajo Nation has reached 1,716. There is a total of 8,037 negative test results. <\/p>\n The 1,716 confirmed positive cases on the Navajo Nation include the following counties:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As the Navajo Nation\u2019s 57-hour weekend curfew is set to end of Monday, Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer ask everyone to continue to comply with the Nation-wide shelter-in-place order that remains in effect 24-hours a day, seven days a week. <\/p>\n \u201cWhen the weekend curfew ends, there shouldn\u2019t be a rush of people leaving their homes to go out into public. Let\u2019s continue to stay home, unless you have an emergency or if you need food or medication, to slow the spread of the virus. Now is not the time to let our guard down. Let\u2019s keeping fighting COVID-19 together,\u201d said President Nez. <\/p>\n Navajo Police Chief Phillip B. Francisco and the Navajo Police Department continue to conduct road checkpoints to enforce compliance with the weekend and daily curfews in various communities on the Navajo Nation. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s up to us as individuals to stay home, stay safe, and save lives. Families are losing their grandparents, parents, siblings, and even children to this virus. It\u2019s not worth it \u2013 to go out in public and risk your lives unless it\u2019s absolutely necessary. If you need groceries, send one person and that one person is required to wear a protective mask. President Nez and I are praying everyone as we fight this virus together,\u201d said Vice President Myron Lizer.<\/p>\n For more information including reports, helpful prevention tips, and more resources, please visit the Navajo Department of Health\u2019s COVID-19 website at http:\/\/www.ndoh.navajo-nsn.gov\/COVID-19<\/a>. To contact the main Navajo Health Command Operations Center, please call (928) 871-7014<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The total number of positive COVID-19 cases for the Navajo Nation has reached 1,716 as of April 26, 2020. There’s been 59 coronavirus related deaths on the largest reservation in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12,8,10,85],"class_list":["post-3591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tribes","tag-arizona","tag-navajo","tag-new-mexico","tag-utah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3591"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3595,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions\/3595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nApril 26, 2020<\/p>\n\n