With a new school year approaching, the Clark County School District says it doesn’t have an employee COVID-19 vaccination mandate and its development “has not been necessary.”
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In early September, the school board voted 5-1 to approve a mandate, but negotiations haven’t yet started with employee unions about the topic.
The district is standing behind its face mask policy for the new school year — at least for now — despite calls from local and national health officials for stricter rules.
The Southern Nevada Health District is holding a series immunization clinics for incoming kindergartners throughseventh-graders before school starts next month.
The private university in Henderson announced the requirement Tuesday in a campuswide email as it plans to resume full on-campus operations this summer.
The first day of school is always fraught with emotion, but Monday’s return to the classroom is expected to bringing an added dimension to the usual anxieties, experts say.
Students from UNLV, College of Southern Nevada and Nevada State College are staffing education “point of dispensing” sites and administering the vaccine to the public.
About 200 UNLV students are part of the contact tracing team, which assists the Southern Nevada Health District.
The university announced Tuesday it is suspending in-person events and lowering occupancy rates to 25 percent in a few campus buildings.
Bishop Gorman High School reported a total of eight COVID-19 cases Wednesday and Thursday, which school officials say are linked to two off-campus student gatherings.
The UNLV School of Public Health announced in late September it received a $3.4 million state grant to expand its contact tracing program, a partnership with the Southern Nevada Health District.
UNLV, which has more than 31,000 students, has reported 208 cases among students and employees since the pandemic began.
More than 200 students will be employed through the program — a partnership with the Southern Nevada Health District, the school said in a news release.
The university has reported seven cases since fall semester classes began Aug. 24.
UNLV is closing its curbside COVID-19 testing site because of intense summertime heat and because the Nevada National Guard will no longer be deployed to assist in the operation.