Bluff • Confirmed coronavirus cases on the rural Navajo Nation rose to 14 on Thursday night as health care officials in southeast Utah brace for the arrival of the virus.
The majority of the cases were clustered on the northern Navajo Nation near where the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed on Tuesday after a patient from Chinchilbeto, Ariz., tested positive. The patient was examined at the health center in Kayenta, Ariz., where more cases were later discovered, according to a statement issued by the Navajo Nation on Thursday.
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