The jump in deaths was the biggest in the county in more than a week, matching the 12 new fatalities reported on April 28, according to Southern Nevada Health District data.
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Both figures were well below the averages of the past week, the Southern Nevada Health District reported Tuesday.
The state reported 229 new COVID-19 cases early Friday — the biggest one-day increase in more than three weeks — but the surge appeared to be driven by a jump in testing.
Another 88 cases of COVID-19 and six new fatalities were reported in Clark County over the past 24 hours, pushing the county death toll from the disease to 202.
Clark County recorded 98 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 10 additional deaths in the past 24 hours, according to data posted Wednesday by the Southern Nevada Health District.
But the 115 new cases reported by the state and the 76 new cases in the county were below the averages seen over the past week.
The new cases pushed the total number of cases of the disease caused by the new coronavirus in the county to 3,443 and raised the death toll to 168.
The latest fatalities pushed the county death toll from the disease caused by the new coronavirus to 163.
Clark County coroner’s office also reports on the cause of death of two Las Vegas men in their 70s and determined COVID-19 was the primary cause.
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.
The new county figures came shortly after the state of Nevada reported 110 new cases of COVID-19 and six additional deaths overnight, raising the state death toll to 137.
The number of new cases reported for the county was the lowest increase reported overnight since the district added 37 cases to the total on March 24.
The Southern Nevada Health District early Tuesday reported 65 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and five additional deaths in Clark County.
The state figures came hours after the Southern Nevada Health District reported four more deaths from COVID-19 in Clark County, bringing the number of fatalities there to 75.
The report by the Southern Nevada Health District came the morning after the state recorded a dozen new deaths, a number that likely included most of the county cases.