After two ambulance companies consistently failed to meet required ambulance response times, Clark County approved a change to their contracts.
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The Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee allocated more than $59 million in funds towards mental health services during its August and October meetings last year.
The case was first reported by the Southern Nevada Health District in a man in his 20s who recently had traveled within in the U.S.
COVID-19 data for Clark County on Thursday provided a mix of good and bad news, with the new cases registering a second straight decline as hospitalizations reached a new high.
The new cases in Nevada bring the state total to five and come as omicron becomes the dominant coronavirus strain nationwide.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention numbers showed nearly a six-fold increase in omicron’s share of infections in only one week.
Los Angeles called off its New Year’s Eve celebration Monday as fears of a potentially devastating winter COVID-19 surge triggered more cancellations and restrictions ahead of the holidays.
Clark County on Wednesday saw most of its major COVID-19 metrics continue to fall as it reported just 333 new coronavirus cases and 11 deaths recorded during the previous day.
Nevada passed a major milestone in its battle against the coronavirus on Friday as it passed the 50 percent mark for vaccination of eligible residents.
There’s a silver lining in the dominance of troubling variants when disease numbers are declining, according to Nevada’s state lab director.
The state’s test positivity rate, meanwhile, remains unchanged at 4.8 percent, according to state data posted Thursday.
The White House took something of a victory lap Friday as Pfizer Inc. formally asked U.S. regulators to allow emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine.
Nevada on Friday reported the highest single-day increase in coronavirus deaths in nearly three months, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
There were 656 additional cases of the coronavirus reported in Nevada on Tuesday, along with 15 more deaths, state data shows.
Health officials reported 948 new COVID-19 cases and one death in Nevada on Monday, breaking a streak of five days with more than 1,000 cases reported in the state.
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