Navajo Nation

Navajo Nation lawmakers are meeting remotely this week for their summer session.

Leaders on the Navajo Nation say mask requirements and weekend lockdowns are helping flatten the curve of new coronavirus cases.

Navajo Nation officials have finalized a Memorandum of Agreement to allocate over five million dollars from the Indian Health Service appropriated coronavirus relief funding to install more than 50 transitional water points for residents in homes without running water.

Residents of the Navajo Nation are being encouraged to refrain from traveling ahead of a weekend lockdown meant to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Coconino National Forest officials say Lockett Meadow and the road that accesses the area will be closed until next Thursday to motorized vehicles because of logging activity.