Clark County will start to use a new statewide COVID-19 vaccine registration system next week, replacing individual systems used by local governments.
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Appointments at Southern Nevada Health District sites on Thursday through Saturday and University Medical Center on Thursday and Friday will be rescheduled for next week.
Nevada on Wednesday reported 363 new coronavirus cases and 41 additional deaths, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Eligibility to receive COVID-19 vaccine has been extended to a new group in Clark County, and it’s not the 65- to 69-year-olds who have been waiting a month.
Clark County lawmakers adopted the county’s first-ever climate action plan on Tuesday, addressing everything from energy consumption to employee commuting.
The COVID-19 testing site at Cashman Center is closing at noon on Friday so that Clark County health officials can increase the capacity to administer vaccine at the site.
Bicyclists in unincorporated Clark County will have the right to travel into the roadway under certain conditions, particularly when there is not a bike lane or shoulder to ride along.
Nevada on Tuesday reported 290 new coronavirus cases, the lowest single-day increase of cases in nearly five months, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Clark County Commission Tuesday voted unanimously to rechristen McCarran International Airport for former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid despite opponents’ fears that the move would be politically divisive.
Of the state’s 17 school districts, 12 — including the Clark County School District — have been granted a variance allowing them some flexibility from state emergency directives.
Public health officials reported a test positivity rate of 12.8 percent Monday. The last time the rate was below 13 percent was on Nov. 12, state data show.
An unknown number of skilled nursing homes and assisted living facilities that didn’t qualify under the federally run program have been left to fend for themselves.
Vaccine doses have been frustratingly difficult for many older residents to obtain and off limits at this point to many of Nevada’s elders.
Presidents from UNLV and UNR issued a joint letter in support of the proposed name change recommended by Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom, citing Reid, the former U.S. Senate majority leader’s decades of work in Nevada.
New cases, deaths, positivity rate and hospitalizations continue to trend lower as Clark County registered its 3,600th death from the disease caused by the new coronavirus.