Personal care aides provide a crucial lifeline to the elderly or disabled. But amid a pandemic, many are left to fend for themselves when it comes to personal safety.
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Gov. Steve Sisolak said Tuesday on Twitter that he plans to announce a “Roadmap to Recovery” plan on Thursday, the final day of his declaration of emergency related to the coronavirus.
New cases reported by the state and the Southern Nevada Health District were both well below the averages of the past week. Infection rates also have been creeping lower.
The Federal Aviation Administration said a Beechcraft BE35, Bonanza crashed near Goshute Peak, about 90 miles southeast of Elko, killing all occupants.
All northbound travel lanes on U.S. Highway 95 north of Kyle Canyon Road were blocked late Tuesday.
Nursing homes and assisted living centers account for more than 16 percent of reported COVID-19 deaths in Nevada, according to state data.
The number of new COVID-19 cases in Clark County rebounded to return to triple digits overnight, with 101 new cases reported early Tuesday.
Clark County released a rebuttal to the results on Monday, calling the ALA’s failing grade for the county “questionable.”
The biggest Fourth of July celebration on the north shore of Lake Tahoe has been canceled and the state Supreme Court is banning visitors.
Ronald Pipkins, 55, was wheeled out of the VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas to a series of cheers from the staff.
COVID-19 cases and deaths have spiked sharply in nursing homes and assisted living centers, and now account for more than 16 percent of the state’s fatalities from the disease.
As a result of the COVID-19 case, all Nye County jails were immediately placed on lockdown, the sheriff’s office said Saturday.
The man, who was in his 60s, died Friday and was one of the county’s previously confirmed cases.
Amid gun holsters and American flags, it was difficult to find a person not wearing some sort of Trump-related paraphernalia.
Beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday, the website http://ui.nv.gov will be down until 7 p.m., the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation said Friday night.
