Author: Arlyssa Becenti

In the letters, Nez and Lizer accused the stores — Sagebrush Liquors near Window Rock and unnamed establishments in Mexican Hat, Utah — of allowing people to congregate and possibly spreading the coronavirus.

In brighter news, the Arizona National Guard Saturday delivered a shipment of much-needed personal protective equipment to Chinle, where it will be sorted and distributed to Navajo health care facilities.

Navajo Police Chief Phillip Francisco said starting tomorrow the police will start to issue citations for noncompliance to the stay-in-shelter order, the curfew order, restriction of tourists and non-essential businesses.

For the past two weeks, the evenings have been filled with dread because that is when the day’s tallies of coronavirus cases and confirmed deaths were usually announced.