Gov. Steve Sisolak announced the suspension of Nevada’s mask mandate at a virtual news conference Thursday, following the lead of other governors.
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Officials in Esmeralda County say the fewer than 1,000 residents are getting doses in other counties, but they can only guess how many have attained immunity.
President Donald Trump rejected Nevada’s request for the federal government to fully fund the cost of deploying the National Guard to help the state’s coronavirus response.
Since mid-March, local governments across the Las Vegas Valley have suspended more than 25 such contracts.
The state figures came hours after the Southern Nevada Health District reported four more deaths from COVID-19 in Clark County, bringing the number of fatalities there to 75.