COVID-19

The Havasupai Tribe will allow visitors to return to the reservation on Feb. 1 after a nearly three-year halt of tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Arizona Department of Health Services has begun a mobile COVID-19 testing program for underserved communities in the state.

Leaders on the Navajo Nation have lifted a longstanding COVID-19 mask mandate. Early in the pandemic the reservation was one of the most heavily impacted areas in the country.

The Navajo Nation has rescinded a mask mandate that's been in effect since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. A public health order says masks are still required in schools, nursing homes and health care facilities.

The Havasupai Tribe plans to restart tourism operations in February of 2023 after shutting down to the public at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded the University of Arizona Health Sciences $7.3 million to study so-called long COVID.

Navajo, Apache, Gila and Pima counties all fall into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's high community transmission category.

A coalition of conservative-leaning states is trying to keep in place a Trump-era public health rule that allows many asylum seekers to be turned away at the southern U.S. border.

Forty-five communities on the Navajo Nation have reported high transmission of COVID-19. That’s based on case counts from the first two full weeks of November and include Ganado, Kayenta and Chinle.

More than half of kindergarten classes in Arizona saw declines in students receiving routine vaccines for diseases like measles, mumps and rubella.