The Navajo Nation has issued a stay-at-home order for the weekend after reporting 26 more confirmed COVID-19 cases.
The latest figures bring the total number of cases on the tribe’s reservation, which includes parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah to 30,239.
No additional deaths were reported. The current death toll is 1,260.
The weekend stay-at-home order follows an increase of infections and the announcement this week of the first confirmed case of the COVID-19 B.1.429 variant on the Navajo Nation. The variant was first identified in the state of California and has since been detected across the southwest U.S.
