It should be a no-brainer, but we’ll likely find out in the coming days whether public health officials in California are willing to let Santa Anita Park reopen for racing sans spectators.
Mike Brunker
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Mike Brunker is an assistant city editor working with reporters covering land use and environment, health care and immigration. He also writes a weekly horse racing column. Before joining the Review-Journal in August 2016, Brunker worked in various reporting and editing capacities for NBCNews.com, msnbc.com and the San Francisco Examiner.
The latest fatalities pushed the county death toll from the disease caused by the new coronavirus to 163.
Public health officials on Tuesday reported 119 new cases of COVID-19 and nine additional deaths overnight in Clark County from the disease caused by the new coronavirus.
The number of new COVID-19 cases in Clark County rebounded to return to triple digits overnight, with 101 new cases reported early Tuesday.
Clark County coroner’s office also reports on the cause of death of two Las Vegas men in their 70s and determined COVID-19 was the primary cause.
The number of new confirmed COVID-19 cases reported in Clark County and Nevada rebounded slightly overnight, reversing days of small decreases, according to data posted Friday.
With all the cancellations, suspensions and closures, it should come as no surprise that both the Del Mar and Saratoga race meets hang in the balance.
The new county figures came shortly after the state of Nevada reported 110 new cases of COVID-19 and six additional deaths overnight, raising the state death toll to 137.
The number of new cases reported for the county was the lowest increase reported overnight since the district added 37 cases to the total on March 24.
The Southern Nevada Health District on Tuesday for the first time posted detailed data for Clark County on the number of COVID-19 cases by ZIP code and city.
The Southern Nevada Health District early Tuesday reported 65 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and five additional deaths in Clark County.
Despite the leveling off seen in recent days in some key categories, public health experts say it’s too soon to say if the state’s outbreak is leveling off.
The state figures came hours after the Southern Nevada Health District reported four more deaths from COVID-19 in Clark County, bringing the number of fatalities there to 75.
But local public health officials in California have shut down Santa Anita Park and Golden Gate Fields despite the fact that neither track reported any COVID-19 cases.
New fatalities from the disease caused by the new coronavirus were reported Thursday in Clark and Washoe counties