Local governments in Southern Nevada say they focus on education rather than citations when it comes to mask enforcement.
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Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom is proposing using federal coronavirus relief funds to give $100 to every person who gets vaccinated, the latest incentive to be offered in Nevada.
Clark County unveiled the “Back to Life” campaign on Monday, encouraging Black residents to get immunized when eligible.
Local governments are calling back employees to full-time, in-person work, offering one sign that normalcy is slowly returning to the public sector.
To target the socioeconomically disadvantaged community, public health officials used a senior center membership roster to fill appointments at the “pop-up” immunization site.
Clark County can administer 92,000 immunization shots per week, but is only getting 22,000 weekly doses of vaccine from the federal government.
Las Vegas and Clark County were among the many communities across the U.S. participating in a national remembrance for the 400,000-plus people who have succumbed to the coronavirus.
Clark County officials hope the relocation of the coronavirus testing site to UNLV will capture data from a population thus far underreported: children.
Of the 5,000-plus confirmed coronavirus cases thus far in Clark County, about 27 percent have been identified as Hispanic, the ethnicity group hardest struck by the disease, local officials said Wednesday.
A Clark County employee working in a licensed shelter for children who cannot safely remain with their families has tested positive for coronavirus, the county said.
The search by leaders in the region for bed space for such patients will not end there as officials anticipate facing a crisis affecting cities across the country: Hospital bed shortages.
Las Vegas and Clark County officials say they are prepared to deal with an outbreak of new coronavirus if one occurs.
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