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COVID-19 numbers rise on the Navajo Nation, more curfews to come

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The Navajo Nation has surpassed 2,000 active cases on the reservation. After the numbers were released April 30, the total stands at 2,141 following an additional 164 positive cases.


To date, a total of 12,023 tests have been performed with 8,639 tests coming back negative. These figures are according to the Navajo...

COMMUNITY COMES TOGETHER

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In the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic, with shortages of tests and Personal Protective Equipment, re- use, recycling, and making the most of available resources have become crucial to the effort.

Fifteen hand-crank hospital beds, from an old nursing home that was purchased by Rio Arriba County, will be put to new use at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services.

The beds were offered to the hospital, along with sixty 3-D printed N95 masks and 123 gowns.

The masks came from Ryan Proctor in Albuquerque, and printed face shields came from Steve Cox with Northern New Mexico College.

Two anonymous cash donations to the Rio Arriba County Rosie the Respirators face mask...

BUSINESSES FACE UNCERTAIN FUTURE

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Small businesses across the City of Gallup are feeling the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing, and measures by the state of New Mexico to help slow the spread of the novel virus.

When Governor Michelle Lujan-Grisham announced late in March that non-essential businesses would have to close, Rhonda and her husband Ryan Quintana’s family-owned business, Quintana’s Music and Indian Jewelry on West Coal Avenue, was one of the non-essential businesses that had to shut down.

What’s harder for the Quintanas is that they do not qualify for the two Small Business Administration’s relief efforts; the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan.

The...

NCI detox reopens

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COVID-19 calls for changes

Na’ Nihzhoozhi Center Inc. detox center is undergoing changes since it reopened April 18 at 10 pm.

Dr. Kevin Foley, the executive director of NCI, says the police will continue to pick people up, but the detox center will only take in intoxicated people who have been confirmed positive after being tested for COVID-19.

Foley explained that this new practice means people who have not tested positive will not become newly exposed to the virus.

Foley says the National Guard is also helping to staff the center with 17 people in three shifts. They will handle administrative duties, such as getting charts and logging people and property in. The extra staffing...

C.O.P. E. partnership lands fourth lodging location for COVID-19 patients

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Days Inn joins El Rancho, Motel 6, Howard Johnson’s

Community Outreach & Patient Empowerment has partnered with local hospitals, as well as hotels and motels in the Gallup area, to establish a network of care and emergency housing for quarantine and social distancing, in an effort to slow community spread in McKinley County and on the Navajo Nation.

This network now includes the Ranch House Motel, part of El Rancho Hotel, which was the first to receive COVID-19 testing patients awaiting results. It has since extended to Motel 6, Howard Johnson and on April 17, Days Inn.

The network also includes the Gallup Indian Medical Center and Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services...

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