Health authorities on Friday announced eight new positive tests for COVID-19 in Clark County and one in Northern Nevada, bringing the state total of coronavirus cases to 20.
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“This response we’re seeing, the panicked shopping, is people trying to gain control of an unknown situation,” one psychologist said.
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Clark County and Las Vegas Valley cities canceled a number of local events in light of the coronavirus outbreak.
Schools and parents struggle to get money back after last week’s announcement by CCSD officials of an out-of-state travel ban in response to coronavirus concerns.
Clark County schools is immediately suspending all athletic events, assemblies and extra-curricular events until further notice over coronavirus fears, the district said Thursday.
The city of Henderson announced Wednesday that a resident who may have been exposed to COVID-19 while on a cruise ship is returning to self-quarantine at home.
Four teachers and one administrator who traveled to Seattle last week will not return to their school for two weeks as a precaution related to coronavirus, the district said.
In Clark County, no one would say whether the child of a man who tested positive for the virus was a public or charter school student. In Northern Nevada, things were different.
The Clark County School District and the State Public Charter School Authority declined to say if the patient’s child attends a district school.
A Henderson couple home from the MS Westerdam cruise ship said they were told by a health official to monitor for coronavirus symptoms.
Henderson’s Paulette Schaeffer, a retired nurse, said she and her husband, Joseph, were confident they were not sick and had at least three health checks during the cruise.
Their vessel was turned away from at least 11 ports of call out of fears that passengers could spread the new coronavirus from China.
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