Author: Donovan Quintero

More than a month after 170 people were exposed to the coronavirus at the Gallup Detox Center, city of Gallup will require everyone to wear a facemask beginning Monday.

More than 1,000 families in the Eastern Agency can continue practicing social distancing and staying home, thanks to the New Mexico Army National Guard and the Tse’ii’ahi’ Strike Team.

The reason, they said, was to bring to attention to RMCH CEO David Canejo’s incompetency to lead the second largest hospital in Gallup.

On Tuesday Navajo Nation staff and chapter members helped distribute food, water and other supplies to more than 200 families here and in Crystal, N.M.

For more than 60 days, the Navajo Nation government has done all it can to educate and inform Diné of the coronavirus.