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Navajo nation reels under weight of coronavirus – and history of broken promises

The Native American tribe has the highest per-capita infection rate after New York and New Jersey but has a fraction of the resources
A Navajo health worker takes a brief break as vehicles line up for Covid-19 testing outside of the Monument Valley health center in Utah last month. Photograph: Kristin Murphy/AP

Every day the president of the Navajo nation provides a coronavirus update, and every day there’s more bad news.

The Native American tribe now has the highest per-capita Covid-19 infection rate after only New York and New Jersey, and the spread is not slowing.

“We are doing our very best to flatten the curve with the very limited resources we have on the Navajo nation,” president Jonathan Nez told the Guardian. “The first citizens of this country were once again pushed aside by the most powerful government in the world … but now that we’re

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