The White House on Tuesday supplied a detailed list of things the federal government has done to help Nevada during the coronavirus crisis.
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The Senate passed a nearly $500 billion interim relief bill Tuesday to pump more money into small businesses struggling from the coronavirus outbreak and funnel federal spending to hospitals and testing.
The county-owned hospital expects to be able to process by June 1 as many as 10,000 daily polymerase chain reaction tests, which identify if someone presently has the virus.
“As morbid as this is, (the shutdown) has been good for business,” Las Vegas area attorney Michael Cahill said.
The coronavirus crisis has carved a deep hole into Clark County finances, flipping once rosy projections upside down and forcing officials to scramble to cover a $315 million shortfall for the upcoming fiscal year.
Countries across Europe and beyond — joined in the U.S. by a cascade of states — moved to reopen amid warnings that acting too quickly could enable the virus to come back.
Even with all the chaos in the oil markets, some signs of economic activity on the horizon were poking through elsewhere.
Secrecy surrounding executions could hinder efforts by a group of medical professionals who are asking the nation’s death penalty states for medications used in lethal injections so that they can go to coronavirus patients who are on ventilators, according to a death penalty expert and a doctor who’s behind the request.
The number of new COVID-19 cases in Clark County rebounded to return to triple digits overnight, with 101 new cases reported early Tuesday.
Nevada construction employment growth led the nation last month with another Southwestern state, even as the coronavirus pandemic started shutting down the economy and hard hats lost jobs around the U.S.
Restaurants that don’t require masks for their employees are not in violation of Southern Nevada Health District regulations, although the CDC recommends them.
Due to the pandemic, almost all visa processing by the State Department, including immigrant visas, has been suspended for weeks.
Ronald Pipkins, 55, was wheeled out of the VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas to a series of cheers from the staff.
COVID-19 cases and deaths have spiked sharply in nursing homes and assisted living centers, and now account for more than 16 percent of the state’s fatalities from the disease.
Ex-MGM Resorts and Wynn Las Vegas exec Sean Christie says of his new venture, “I think that companies are going to need companies like mine to create content and create ‘wow.’”
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