Clark County reported 306 new coronavirus cases and 19 deaths Wednesday, continuing trends that have gone on for weeks and moving the county farther away from the peak of the omicron surge.
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Clark County on Tuesday reported 527 new coronavirus cases and 13 deaths during the preceding day, as hospitalizations continued to creep higher.
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The state on Wednesday reported 363 new COVID-19 cases and four new deaths from the disease over the preceding day, with the test positivity rate unchanged at 3.5 percent.
The state Department of Health and Human Services also reported six additional deaths and a 0.2 percentage point rise in the test positivity rate to 5.7 percent.
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