Clark County showed more progress in curbing the current COVID-19 surge, but still remained a ways away from meeting the criteria needed to exit the governor’s mask mandate.
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Clark County on Wednesday reported 548 new coronavirus cases and 12 deaths as its major metrics for the disease showed mixed signals.
Nevada State Higher Education system officials said they hadn’t yet compiled records from individual colleges and universities and don’t know how many complied with the mandate.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moves the county closer to exiting the state’s mask mandate for indoor public settings.
The two-week moving average of new COVID-19 cases dropped more than 10 percent, adding to evidence that the coronavirus is at least temporarily in retreat.
After five hours of public comment, the Clark County School Board voted early Thursday to approve a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for employees, which will be negotiated with unions.
Updates posted by the Department of Health and Human Services brought state totals to 392,052 COVID-19 cases and 6,539 deaths.
Nevada will seek federal government help to respond to an increasing trend in COVID-19 cases, an emergence and increase in the Delta variant, and the stagnation in Clark County vaccination rates.
The three cases of a mutant version of the highly contagious delta variant were detected during genetic sequencing of positive coronavirus tests at a state lab.
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The “3 Million Reasons” campaign will remind people in the “hesitancy spectrum” that immunization will allow them to safely gather together, state officials announced.
COVID-19 vaccine eligibility in Clark County will expand Tuesday to all groups within frontline community support and frontline supply chain and logistics categories.
The one-dose vaccine, which the Food and Drug Administration authorized for emergency use over the weekend, is the third to be authorized for emergency use in the U.S.
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Older military veterans are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at the Veterans Affairs hospital in North Las Vegas, with a few restrictions.
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