New COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations edged higher in Clark County for the second straight day Thursday as deaths and the test positivity rate remained unchanged.
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Deaths remained flat while the county’s test positivity rate for new coronavirus infections dropped by 0.1 percentage points to 6.0 percent.
New COVID-19 cases and deaths in Clark County held steady on Thursday, while test positivity rate and hospitalization numbers continued to improve.
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.
CDC data shows that the county’s test positivity rate is now below the threshold for dropping the mandate, while the rate of cases per 100,000 people continues to decline.
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CDC data showed that Clark County had a case rate of 139.54 per 100,000 people, a slight increase from a week earlier but still significantly short of the number needed to exit the mask mandate.
Clark County on Thursday reported 529 new coronavirus cases and 25 deaths during the preceding day.
Hospitalizations attributed to the disease jumped by 36 during the preceding day to nearly erase the gains seen over the last week.
As Nevada makes significant strides against the coronavirus, the rural county has made an encouraging leap: going two weeks without a single reported COVID-19 case.
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The shift from the CDC’s ‘substantial’ transmission risk category highlights progress in slowing the spread of the disease, but more work remains to exit the state’s mask mandate.
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