The decline in the state’s cumulative infection or positivity rate registered its first decline in nearly a month, according to state data posted Wednesday.
Clark County
The idea is to show the state that Southern Nevada should be able to write its own guidelines as it responds to the coronavirus pandemic.
Cellphone alerts common with Amber Alerts and flash flood warnings took a different turn Tuesday.
A permanent memorial for Route 91 Harvest festival shooting victims may not be ready for several years, leading some Clark County lawmakers to worry about the project sitting for too long on the shelf.
Joe Gloria said Tuesday that local election officials were on track to staff dozens of Election Day and early voting sites this fall, two weeks after concerns of a poll worker shortage.
Data posted on the state’s nvhealthresponse.nv.gov website raised the case total for the state to 69,633 and raised the death toll to 1,313.
The “Stop, Swab and Go” drive runs through Sept. 18 at four locations: Fiesta Henderson, Texas Station, Sam Boyd Stadium and in the city of Mesquite.
Both new cases and new fatalities were were well below the daily averages of the preceding week of just over 472 and 15, respectively.
The protest, organized by Nevada nonprofit Power2Parent, took place outside the Clark County School District’s Administrative Center on West Sahara Avenue in Las Vegas.
New cases were slightly above the daily average of nearly 520 over the preceding week, and fatalities were slightly above the daily average of nearly 17 for the period.
In a partnership with the federal and state governments, Clark County will administer up to 60,000 coronavirus tests over 14 days, marking its most ambitious effort yet to identify the spread in Southern Nevada.
Clark County in 2018 limited the thickness of flagpoles allowed at protests, prompting a group that opposes requirements to wear face masks to claim there’s a ban on American flags.
The state Department of Health and Human Services and the Southern Nevada Health District reported 253 and 152 new cases, respectively, but deaths remained high with 20 added.
Around 245,000 students and teachers — or nearly three-quarters of the total — logged into the district’s main distance learning tool on Tuesday, up from about 217,000 Monday.
Nevada recorded 403 new cases of COVID-19 over the preceding day, but fatalities from the disease rose by 30 — the fourth-highest one-day increase of the outbreak.