Nevada is one of seven states with “very high” levels of COVID wastewater activity. Experts said a tourist surge over the Fourth of July weekend was one factor.
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COVID-19’s latest variant is on the loose, but local experts think vaccines can mitigate its spread and severity.
Gov. Joe Lombardo signed a bipartisan bill to repeal COVID-era health regulations.
Expect to pay out-of-pocket for over-the-counter COVID-19 tests, for a start.
Already at pandemic lows, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations dipped this week.
California hospitals are facing increasingly difficult decisions about which services to postpone amid a crushing load of coronavirus patients.
Health inspectors and authorities stepped up enforcement at restaurants and shopping malls over the post-Christmas weekend as they desperately seek to curb a coronavirus surge that already has filled some hospitals in California well beyond normal capacity.
Officials in Canada’s most populous province have confirmed the first two known Canadian cases of of a more contagious variant of COVID-19 that was first identified in the United Kingdom.
The numbers posted by the state Department of Health and Human Services brought the totals to 215,653 cases and 2,944 deaths.
It’s emblematic of 2020 that an unemployment rate of 10.1 percent is considered good news in Nevada.
The state listed a 19.7 percent test positivity rate over the last 14 days, which is a slight decline from the 19.9 percent reported Thursday.
Despite recommendations from officials not to travel over the holidays, Americans have been setting pandemic passenger highs at airports across the nation.
With new coronavirus strains being reported in the United Kingdom and parts of Africa, come new worries around the world.
The latest figures pushed the state totals to 212,211 cases and 2,916 deaths, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
President Trump’s demand for $2,000 checks for most Americans was swiftly rejected by House Republicans on Thursday as his actions throw a massive COVID relief and government funding bill into chaos.
California became the first state to record 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases, reaching the milestone on Christmas Eve as close to the entire state was under a stay-at-home order.
High school junior’s passion project designed to share her love of reading and ballet with younger kids led her to create an online class that marries the two.
Nevada’s daily coronavirus case count rebounded as expected Wednesday following an artificially low count the previous day caused by a technical glitch.
Testing locations for COVID-19 will be limited over the long Christmas weekend in Southern Nevada.
Under the nearly $2 billion deal announced Wednesday, at least 70 million additional doses will be delivered by June 30, and the remaining 30 million by July 31.