Navajo Nation Mask Mandate Lifted
WINDOW ROCK, Navajo Nation — Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren announced in coordination with the Navajo Department of Health and Speaker Pro Tem of the Navajo Nation Council Otto Tso the COVID-19 mask mandate on the Navajo Nation has been lifted effective at 5 p.m. on Friday. The public health emergency order applies to public spaces, which include the 110 chapters, according to the Navajo Office of Environmental Health and Protection. The order leaves the continued wearing of masks optional for the general public and for all businesses with four exceptions. “It’s time for the Navajo people to get back to work,” President Nygren said. “It’s time for them to be able to open their chapter houses to conduct local business and to receive services they are asking for and deserve.”