Clark County on Monday reported more than 8,100 new cases of COVID-19 over the preceding three days as the omicron-fueled surge of the disease continued unabated.
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Clark County’s COVID-19 metrics continued to paint a mixed picture of the direction of the outbreak in data posted Monday.
Hospitalizations, test positivity rate and deaths all rose slightly from Friday through Sunday, while new cases declined by an average of one per day, new data show.
A day after the county dipped into the “substantial” risk category under the CDC’s classification system, its rate of new cases per 100,000 rebounded into “high” risk territory.
All four key COVID-19 metrics for Clark County fell over the weekend, with 891 new cases and 20 deaths recorded since Friday’s report, according to state and local data.
Fatalities and hospitalizations bucked a trend of improvement in key COVID-19 metrics as the county recorded 687 new coronavirus cases and 28 deaths.
Nevada on Friday added 1,287 new COVID-19 cases and 35 deaths, as the state’s test positivity rate and hospitalizations both showed declines.
Nevada on Wednesday reported 57 deaths from the disease over the preceding day, as 2,366 additional cases were below recent levels.
The spike in coronavirus cases in Nevada is pressuring hospitals, especially in Southern Nevada where a record 90 percent of licensed beds were full as of Friday.
New cases were well below the daily average of nearly 277 for the preceding week, while fatalities were slightly below the daily average of nearly 13 for the period.
Nevada recorded 389 new cases of the disease over the preceding day, but saw its second-highest one-day increase in deaths with 32, according to state data posted Wednesday.
New cases were well below the daily average of 763 for the preceding week, while fatalities were slightly below the daily average of 17 over the period.
Nevada recorded 649 new cases of COVID-19 over the preceding day — the lowest single-day increase in nearly a month — but the state death toll jumped by 28.
The number of new cases was below the daily average of slightly more than 1,058 over the preceding week and was the lowest daily total announced by the agency since July 20.
Clark County announced 1,315 new cases and the state added 1,447 cases, the largest one day gains reported by both agencies.
The Southern Nevada Health District reported more than 1,000 cases and also reported 15 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.
It was the third straight day the health district reported more than 600 new cases in a 24-hour period, though the Saturday and Sunday counts were both inflated by older cases.
The new cases — coming on the heels of a record one-day jump of 412 in the county — brought the total to 11,481, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
The number of new confirmed COVID-19 cases reported in Clark County and Nevada rebounded slightly overnight, reversing days of small decreases, according to data posted Friday.