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KUER The Utah Navajo Health System ran a vaccination drive-through in Monument Valley on Feb. 11. The event was open to anyone over the age of 16. The Navajo Nation announced it will begin lifting COVID-19 restrictions on March 15, due to a steep decline in cases across the reservation. Navajo President Jonathan Nez explained the new measures in a Facebook video Wednesday night. He showed a chart of the falling positive COVID-19 cases on the reservation and explained that the reopening will be gradual. “The thing that’s different about this time around is we have vaccination,” Nez said. “It pushes back against the virus’s spread in our communities.” ....
Patrick Hayes & The Associated Press Created: January 21, 2021 08:31 PM ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Navajo Nation health officials on Thursday reported 166 new COVID-19 cases and seven more deaths. The latest figures bring the total reported coronavirus cases on the reservation to 26,782 with 940 known deaths. Navajo health officials are continuing to administer the vaccine to elders and other high-risk patients after receiving another large shipment of more than 20,000 doses this week. I just encourage everyone to wear your mask, continue social distancing. Our teams are doing a very good job regardless of whatever the weather is, we re going to continue to get the vaccine into the arms of people, said Roselyn Tso, director of the Navajo Area Indian Health Service. ....
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has added 1,092 new coronavirus cases in a resurgence that is erasing hard-won epidemiological gains and eroding public confidence in the government’s ability to ....
By Susan Montoya Bryan and Cedar Attanasio, Associated Press Around 15,000 residents previously ineligible for pandemic stimulus checks have started receiving payments from the state. The group includes immigrants in the country without work authorization. Officials with the New Mexico Human Services Department said the $465 relief payments began arriving this week via direct deposit or checks. The Legislature allocated $5 million to the fund for those who hadn t received federal payments in April. Agency officials say they were able to identify an additional $2 million on top of that. Drawing from unspent federal relief funds, New Mexico s relief package was part of a $330 million appropriation that included additional money for New Mexicans already on unemployment or whose benefits had run out. Funding also was earmarked for more COVID-19 testing and support for food banks. ....
BERLIN Switzerland has started vaccinating people against the coronavirus, a few days before its European Union neighbors start their vaccination campaigns. The government in Lucerne canton (state) said that a woman aged over 90 at a nursing home in the central Swiss region became the first to receive the vaccine on Wednesday. Switzerland became on Sunday the first country to approve the vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer for use under normal licensing procedures. The EU followed a day later. Britain, Canada and the U.S. had authorized the vaccine earlier, but in line with emergency procedures. Switzerland, which has a population of 8.6 million, is not a member of the EU. Its neighbors in the 27-member bloc plan to start vaccinations on Sunday. ....