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COVID-19 metrics held mostly flat in Nevada’s weekly report on Wednesday, with a delayed report of over 300 deaths clogging up most significant figures and affecting raw data totals.
Clark County on Monday recorded 1,160 new cases of COVID-19 and 11 deaths during the previous three days as key metrics for the disease pointed in different directions.
CDC data showed that Clark County had a case rate of 139.54 per 100,000 people, a slight increase from a week earlier but still significantly short of the number needed to exit the mask mandate.
The two-week daily average of new coronavirus cases jumped from 876 on Friday to 948 on Monday, even as the average number of deaths per day continued to decline.
Nevada on Friday reported 1,280 new coronavirus cases and 40 additional deaths, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
New federal guidance that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask in most indoor and outdoor settings is now effective in Nevada. Yet businesses in the state may still require masks for customers and employees, if they so choose.
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The requirement to wear a mask while in public will remain in place, however, the governor said.
The closely watched metric climbed back above the 5 percent benchmark recommended by the World Health Organization for the first time in nearly a month.
Nevada has called a temporary halt to the use of the Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen vaccine on Tuesday, heeding the recommendation of federal regulators.