
Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez held a live town hall meeting via Facebook Live on Feb. 9 to discuss the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and progress in vaccine distribution. He began the meeting by sharing the current numbers surrounding the coronavirus.
As of Feb. 8, there were 28,937 confirmed cases of COVID-`19 among Navajo residents. There have been 236,327 COVID-19 tests given to Navajo residents.
Fifteen-thousand-two-hundred-sixty-four residents have recovered from the virus, while there have been 1,060 deaths in the community.
“This virus, this pandemic, has probably reached every single person in the Navajo Nation one way or another, either having someone who has...