The updated figures from the state Department of Health and Human Services bring statewide totals to 217,509 cases and 2,952 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
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The total number of confirmed cases stands at 78,728 as of Sunday morning.
The Las Vegas hotel that hosted a Trump campaign event and beauty pageant with hundreds of guests this month was hit with a nearly $11,000 fine this week for failing to follow the state’s COVID-19 safety and health measures.
The vast majority of the visitors tested positive while they were in Nevada. The data dates back to June 1; casinos reopened June 4.
Pubs, bars and taverns in Clark, Nye, Washoe and Elko counties will remain closed, Gov. Steve Sisolak announced during a Monday news conference in which he updated Nevada’s COVID-19 response.
A remote Nevada bar exam for prospective lawyers, which was to start Tuesday, has been postponed after officials found a glitch in the test software.
Gov. Steve Sisolak has tested negative for the coronavirus, after visiting a state office where a worker tested positive for the disease.
Clark County reported 61 new cases of COVID-19 and three additional deaths over the preceding day, according to data posted Wednesday.
The Nevada Police Union, formerly the Nevada Highway Patrol Association, filed a complaint Thursday with the state-run Employee-Management Relations Board.
New cases reported by the state and the Southern Nevada Health District were both well below the averages of the past week. Infection rates also have been creeping lower.
Tesla is winding down “non-essential operations” at its Gigafactory battery production plant in Storey County, reducing on-site staff by about 75 percent in compliance with the COVID-19-related state directive on business closings.
State government in talks with banks and others to provide assistance to Nevadans impacted by the economic upheaval the new coronavirus has inflicted on the state, he says.
Last week, the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation saw the most unemployment insurance claims in state history.
The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation (DETR) has implemented new measures to deal with “an unprecedented number of unemployment insurance claims.”
Nevada officials have stated they need more COVID-19 test kits. Four times they have asked federal officials for help only to be told there is a “indefinite backlog.”
