District Judge Erika Ballou granted a petition that challenged Nevada Medicaid’s coverage ban on abortion services.
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Judge James Wilson said that the board did not give the proper amount of notice to victims’ families prior to the meeting, although he allowed that the board did have the power to commute death sentences.
Nevada on Wednesday reported 348 new coronavirus cases and five additional deaths over the preceding day, as the state positivity rate dipped again to 4.8 percent.
State sees higher-than-average numbers of new coronavirus cases and deaths for day, but all major COVID-19 metrics have now been declining steadily for more than a month.
New cases, deaths and the positivity rate all showed declines in state data reported Tuesday.
Carson City Manager Nancy Paulson on Thursday requested that the state supply a field hospital to treat the 470 prisoners who have tested positive for the coronavirus at Warm Springs Correctional Center.
This is the second time in a week Nevada eclipsed 2,000 new COVID-19 cases.