the total to 4071 according to a joint press release from the native american territorys president and vice president there were no coronaviruslinked fatalities reported monday leaving the navajo nations death toll at 142 as the largest american indian reservation in the country the navajo nation is home to more than 356000 people and covers some 25000 square miles in the united states spanning across parts of arizona utah and new mexico the territory is approximately the size of the state of west virginia navajo nation president jonathan nez distributes educational material to drivers on how to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus at a checkpoint in window rock show more donovan quinteroreuters the navajo department of health has conducted more than 25000 covid19 tests the navajo nation is testing our citizens at a greater rate per capita than any state in the entire country and thats a major reason why we have high numbers of positive cases navajo nation president jonathan nez said in a statement monday night the navajo nation must continue to work together with local state and federal partners to stop the spread of covid19 by staying home washing hands staying at least sixfeet apart from others and by wearing proper personal protection such as face masks when in public what to know about coronavirus how it started and how to protect yourself coronavirus explained what to do if you have symptoms coronavirus symptoms tracking the spread in the us and worldwide coronavirus map 731 am russian prime minister officially returns to work after battling covid19 russian prime minister mikhail mishustin officially returned to work tuesday after being hospitalized for several weeks with covid19 the kremlin said although russian president vladimir putin had appointed an actingprime minister in the meantime mishustin still held video conferences with ministers from the hospital sitting up in bed and wearing a suit in this file photo taken on february 3 2020 russian prime minister mikhail mishustin arrives for a meeting with his deputies in moscow mishustin is formally returning to show more dmitry astakhovsputnikafp via getty images putin on tuesday cancelled his order that appointed an actingprime minister allowing mishutin to formally return to his role according to the kremlin russian news agencies reported that mishustin was still in the hospital the previous day putins longtime press secretary dmitry peskov revealed last week that he was also being treated for covid19 613 am russia nears 300000 total cases of covid19 russia on tuesday reported 9263 new cases of covid19 over the past 24 hours bringing the total to 299941 according to the countrys coronavirus response headquarters russia has the secondlargest national tally of covid19 cases in the world behind the united states the latest daily tally is down from a record 11656 new infections on may 11 last thursday marked the end of a 12day streak during which the country registered over 10000 new cases per day a serviceman of russias emergencies ministry wearing protective gear disinfects the leningradsky