Nevada elections officials delivered on promises of faster election returns Tuesday, with several major races already called Tuesday night.
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Deputy City Attorney Rebecca Wolfson was leading two other attorneys and in a position to possibly win the race outright to serve as a judge on the Las Vegas Municipal Court.
Races for Clark County School Board will likely advance to the general election, preliminary election results show.
Preliminary primary election results showed Republican candidate April Becker and Democrat Shannon Bilbray-Alexrod ahead in their respective primaries.
The Associated Press calls the GOP primary in Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District for Drew Johnson.
Most metrics have been on the rise for months, but the rate of the increase has gone up in recent weeks.
Clark County’s case rate per 100,000 people, another key CDC metric, also increased this week from 86.07 to 110.69.
Clark County saw another jump in COVID-19 metrics this week. Hospitalizations also have increased.
All major COVID-19 metrics increased over the last week in Clark County, according to a weekly report released Wednesday.
New COVID-10 metrics released Wednesday showed Clark County’s case rate increasing, but hospitalizations continued to drop.
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 showed a slight uptick in COVID-19 cases in the state’s weekly update.
The state reported 82 deaths over the preceding week, with data updated through Monday.
On the first day of its new COVID-19 reporting system, Clark County reported a decline in most major metrics.
Clark County on Thursday reported 516 new coronavirus cases and 16 deaths, as long-term metrics declined but daily number inched higher.