Only one case has been reported in Clark County this month, as cases dwindle across the U.S. and other countries.
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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.
Key COVID-19 metrics for Nevada are expected to rise over the holiday season, but it remains unclear how the omicron variant could alter the “impact and magnitude” of the surge.
Clark County on Tuesday reported 527 new coronavirus cases and 13 deaths during the preceding day, as hospitalizations continued to creep higher.
Nevada on Thursday reported 1,475 new coronavirus cases and 32 deaths as the state’s major COVID-19 metrics continued to provide mixed signals on the direction of the outbreak.
New cases, hospitalizations and test positivity rate have risen steadily for more than a month and Clark County’s top health official says there is no sign the rise is slowing.
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.
The COVID-19 testing site at Cashman Center is closing at noon on Friday so that Clark County health officials can increase the capacity to administer vaccine at the site.
Nevada on Tuesday reported 290 new coronavirus cases, the lowest single-day increase of cases in nearly five months, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Nevada on Wednesday reported 57 deaths from the disease over the preceding day, as 2,366 additional cases were below recent levels.
There were 716 new coronavirus cases reported in Nevada on Friday, along with nine additional deaths, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
New cases were well below the daily average of nearly 277 for the preceding week, while fatalities were slightly below the daily average of nearly 13 for the period.
Clark County announced the largest single-day increase in new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, with 342 reported.
Figures provided to the Review-Journal last week by the only two public labs in the state indicate that only a few hundred tests had been administered so far.
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