COVID-19 cases in the Apache and Navajo counties appear to have numbers double that of October and rising steadily this month.
In Navajo County, the number of new cases every day hit 100 twice – on December 1st and 3rd.
Daily new cases in Arizona increased in June 2020 and January 2021 and started on a downward trend. They still average over 5,000 new cases a day, but that’s almost half of what was reported in early to mid-January 2021.
Apache County’s daily incidence hit 120 new cases as of December 1. In the days that followed, there were 82 new cases on December 3rd and 72 new cases on December 4th.
The number of new daily cases in Apache County averaged about 82 per day for the first week of December. The number of new daily cases in Navajo County also averaged about 84 per day for the first week of December. (This only applies to countries outside the tribe.)
The number of new daily cases in Apache and Navajo counties for the last half of November averaged 70 to 74 new cases per day, a moderate increase compared to early December. (This only applies to countries outside the tribe.)
The number of new daily cases in Navajo County averaged just 11 in October. By the end of November, it had increased from a manageable 11 new cases per day to 70. That is an increase of almost 60% in one month. (This only applies to countries outside the tribe.)
The Navajo Public Health Services reported a total of 8,519 cases in Navajo County as of Friday, December 4. Out of the nationwide total, 2,906 of these cases were outside of tribal areas, which include areas like Holbrook, Snowflake-Taylor, Show Low, Linden, and Pinetop-lakefront.
On Thursday, President of the Navajo Nation Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer hosted a virtual forum in which several medical and health care providers from the Navajo Area Indian Health Services stated that “The Navajo Nation is now in a major health crisis.” .
The leaders pleaded with the public to stay home and take precautions to reduce the overwhelming surge in new COVID-19 cases and hospital stays.
Since last Thursday through December 28, the nation reintroduced full 57-hour weekend bans on three additional weekends.
The Navajo Nation includes Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.
The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHD) reported a record number of 5,442 new cases per day on December 3. The new numbers brought 82 new deaths that were also recorded by ADHD.
The number of new cases on July 1 was about 4,900.
The number of people hospitalized for coronavirus rides on the same wave of new cases every day. it is now comparable to the increase reported by health facilities in June and July.
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