{"id":7936,"date":"2020-08-18T18:55:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T22:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=7936"},"modified":"2020-08-18T18:56:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T22:56:28","slug":"mescalero-apache-tribe-new-mexico-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/2020\/08\/18\/mescalero-apache-tribe-new-mexico-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Mescalero Apache Tribe (New Mexico)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"entry-title\">Mescalero Apache Tribe announces second corona virus death<\/h1>\n<p class=\"entry-meta\"><time class=\"entry-time\" datetime=\"2020-08-18T16:20:01-06:00\">August 18, 2020<\/time><\/p>\n<p>MESCALERO, NM.<\/p>\n<p>August 18, 2020. Earlier today, the Mescalero Apache Tribe announced the death of a Reservation resident, an elderly woman, from the corona virus (COVID-19).<\/p>\n<p>Tribal President Gabe Aguilar stated, \u201cWe are a small community and every death hurts. Our prayers are with the family.\u201d The elderly woman who passed became sick several weeks ago and appeared to be on her way to a full recovery. President Aguilar commented, \u201cShe fought hard but in the end, she did not survive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the second death for the Tribe; the Tribe suffered its first coronavirus death, also an elderly woman, in late May.<\/p>\n<p>President Aguilar added, \u201cWe know the virus targets the elderly. The Tribe is doing everything we can to protect them and the community as a whole. And, we will keep working at it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Tribe has restricted access to the Reservation, mandated the use of facemasks in public and taken a number of other steps to curb the spread of COVID-19 on the Reservation.<\/p>\n<p>The Tribe provides updates on its official website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mescaleroapachetribe.com\/\">www.mescaleroapachetribe.com<\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mescaleroapachetribe\/\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We are a small community and every death hurts,&#8217; said President Gabe Aguilar. &#8216;Our prayers are with the family.&#8217;<\/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":[697,463,10],"class_list":["post-7936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tribes","tag-gabe-aguilar","tag-mescalero-apache","tag-new-mexico"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936","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=7936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7939,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions\/7939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}