U.S. District Court Judge Miranda Du rejected a request for a preliminary injunction sought by a conservative group that alleged conducting the June 9 primary election by mail could lead to voter fraud.
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Another 88 cases of COVID-19 and six new fatalities were reported in Clark County over the past 24 hours, pushing the county death toll from the disease to 202.
The Nevada Sentencing Commission on Wednesday twice rejected recommending that Gov. Steve Sisolak move to depopulate the state’s prisons in an effort to stave off the coronavirus’ spread.
The first pieces of the state’s plan to vastly expand testing for the disease caused by the new coronavirus are expected as soon as Friday.
Business leaders say the governor needs to be more transparent about plans to reopen the Nevada economy. Sisolak issued a directive late Wednesday extending the stay-at-home order.
State and local officials have decided the June 9 primary election will be conducted almost entirely by mail rather than in-person voting.
Nevada’s stay-at-home order, which was set to expire Friday, will be extended, Gov. Steve Sisolak said in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Wednesday.
Clark County recorded 98 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 10 additional deaths in the past 24 hours, according to data posted Wednesday by the Southern Nevada Health District.
Gov. Steve Sisolak said Tuesday he’d make an announcement about Nevada’s path to recovery Thursday, as even President Donald Trump asked him about his plans to allow businesses here to reopen.
But the 115 new cases reported by the state and the 76 new cases in the county were below the averages seen over the past week.
Hispanic leaders and advocacy groups are pushing Joe Biden to pick Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto as a running mate to energize the Latino vote in the general election.
According to data from the Southern Nevada Health District, there are now 3,570 cases of the virus in the county and 174 deaths as of Saturday morning.
The Nevada National Guard distributed nearly a million pieces of personal protective equipment to 22 Southern Nevada nursing and assisted living facilities this week.
The new cases pushed the total number of cases of the disease caused by the new coronavirus in the county to 3,443 and raised the death toll to 168.
The latest fatalities pushed the county death toll from the disease caused by the new coronavirus to 163.
