The Southern Nevada Health District is looking into a data discrepancy that shows Clark County in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “high” transmission tier, a health official said Wednesday.
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Clark County on Wednesday reported 201 new coronavirus cases and 32 deaths, as most numbers continued to decline but death numbers stayed relatively flat.
Just as the omicron wave of COVID-19 cases showed signs of receding, the state’s first case of a worrisome new variant known as BA.2 was spotted in Southern Nevada.
For the first time in over a month, Clark County on Wednesday reported fewer than 1,000 new coronavirus cases over the preceding day.
Southern Nevada and other areas of the state labeled at “high” risk of COVID-19 transmission will remain under a state mask mandate into early 2022, a state official says.
U.S. health officials on Tuesday gave the final signoff to Pfizer’s kid-size COVID-19 shot, a major expansion of the nation’s vaccination campaign.
A day after the county dipped into the “substantial” risk category under the CDC’s classification system, its rate of new cases per 100,000 rebounded into “high” risk territory.
“She tried so hard to have that baby, and she never even knew it was born. Never got to hold her,” Vena Foster said about her sister, Kimmie Pavone, who was 35.
Updated numbers posted by the state Department of Health and Human Services on the state’s coronavirus website pushed the state totals to 393,188 cases and 6,539 deaths.
Nevada on Monday reported that 1,224 people were hospitalized with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases in the state, surpassing the peak of the virus’ second wave last summer.
As the highly contagious delta strain takes hold in the Las Vegas Valley, the disease is spreading fastest in affluent suburbs in the west and south, data shows.
New cases, deaths and hospitalizations also remain on the upswing, according to data published by the state on Friday.
Nevada’s two-week coronavirus test positivity rate continued to decrease on Wednesday, one day after reaching its lowest point in nearly a year .
Nevada on Friday reported 342 new coronavirus cases and four additional deaths, while its positivity rate remained unchanged for the fifth straight day, state data show.
Southern Nevada COVID-19 vaccine clinics are giving healthy Nevadans 16 and older the chance to make appointments ahead of Monday’s expanded eligibility.