Map shows COVID-19 cases and case rates over the week preceding the last update.
Credit: Nick O Gara/AZPM. Sources: The New York Times, based on reports from state and local health agencies, Census Bureau. Case reports do not correspond to day of test.
Cases 850,236 | Deaths 17,086
On Monday, April 12, Arizona reported 675 new cases of COVID-19 and no additional deaths. Over 2.5 million Arizonans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, the Associated Press reports.
TPD Chief Chris Magnus to be nominated to lead Customs and Border Protection
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The New York Times is reporting that President Biden will nominate Tucson Chief of Police Chris Magnus to lead Customs and Border Protection.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Thursday it set up the new Missing and Murdered Unit for American Indians and Alaska Natives to support interagency investigations.
Cases of missing or murdered Indigenous peoples can cover multiple jurisdictions, such as federal, state, tribal. It has become a longstanding hurdle for solving these crimes.
“Violence against Indigenous peoples is a crisis that has been underfunded for decades,”Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland. Far too often, murders and missing persons cases in Indian country go unsolved and unaddressed, leaving families and communities devastated.
According to a press release from the department, the National Crime Information Center reports there are about 1,500 American Indian or Alaska Native missing people in the United States, and another 2,700 murder or nonnegligent homicide offenses in the Uniformed Crime Reporting Program.