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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

(Brian van der Brug / Getty Images) More than 18 months into the pandemic, the Navajo Nation, once the area in the United States hit hardest by Covid, is now one of the safest. Back in March 2020 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Navajo Nation will reinstate a stay-at-home lockdown while closing tribal offices and requiring new closures and safety measures for businesses due to a surge in COVID-19 infections.