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Nevada
Nevada’s approximately 13,000 home care workers could see big increases to minimum wage and reimbursement rates under legislative proposals presented Thursday.
Nevada officials, including Gov. Joe Lombardo and Sen. Jacky Rosen, have urged the U.S. Postal Service to reconsider plans to move the mail center to California.
The ACLU of Nevada said seven jails, including several in the Las Vegas Valley, are now complying with a law requiring a process for inmates to vote while in jail.
Workers in Nevada will see a bump in the state’s minimum wage this summer.
Gov. Steve Sisolak announced on Friday that he intends to end the state of emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hundreds of others have been infected with COVID-19 at least three times, according to new data from the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services.
More than one in five residents have now tested positive in both measures as omicron tightens its grip.
The county’s test positivity rate continued to climb from Friday through Sunday and now stands at 7 percent. Other metrics were flat to lower.
Gov. Steve Sisolak made the comment on Thursday at a news conference to praise FEMA “surge teams” for increasing the state’s COVID-19 vaccination rates as the mission draws to a close.
Public health officials in Nevada reported 26 new coronavirus-related deaths Friday, pushing the state’s pandemic death toll past 6,000.
Nevada on Tuesday reported 295 new coronavirus cases and 22 additional deaths, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The state’s seven-day average of new cases also surpassed 1,000 for the first time since August, and hospitalizations across the state continued to climb.
Figures posted by the Department of Health and Human Service Thursday showed 729 new cases of COVID-19 were reported over the preceding day along with 10 additional deaths.
New figures posted Monday pushed the case total for the county to 18,818, while fatalities from the disease caused by the new coronavirus were unchanged at 439.