New deaths from COVID-19 were reported in Clark County overnight, and the state death toll edged higher to 81, according to new data from local health agencies.
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Nevada health authorities reported 12 new deaths and more than 100 new cases of COVID-19 in the state as of Monday night
As of Saturday morning, there were 1,742 reported cases of COVID-19 in Nevada, according to the state Health and Human Services Department.
A UNLV public health expert says that metric is not helpful in combating the outbreak and would require manpower needed elsewhere.
The death toll from the disease caused by the new coronavirus in the state jumped to 26 on Tuesday with eight new fatalities reported in Clark County.
There are four more reported deaths in Clark County due to coronavirus, according to the Southern Nevada Health District’s website.
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.”
New figures posted by the state Department of Health and Human Services in the morning on the nvhealthresponse.nv.gov website showed a spike of nearly 100 cases.
Two more patients in Clark County with COVID-19 have died, bringing the total number of deaths in the state and in Nevada’s most populous county to four.
Nevada has one of the lowest ratios of doctors and nurses for our population. Patients suffering coronavirus symptoms will have fewer places to turn to for care.
A rapid influx of coronavirus patients could inundate Nevada hospitals. An anlysis shows there is only one hospital bed for every 22 people likely to be hospitalized.
Nevada state government had this to say Friday to all of the people clamoring to be tested for the new coronavirus: Many of you should stop trying to be tested.
Health authorities on Friday reported a second death in Clark County from coronavirus, as the number of cases in Nevada rose to 154.
The statewide total was up from 86 cases as of late Wednesday.
On Sunday, Dr. Marianne Hazelitt began her quest to be tested for COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus.
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A woman died and a man was hospitalized after the car they were in was shot at by another vehicle, causing them to be ejected in the southwest valley, police said.
The valley will see more of the same Friday, with a high of 77 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
A man who died after he was pulled from a northwest Las Vegas house fire Thursday morning had been shot several times, police said.
Wesley Larsen, who was on his way home from a birthday party, died after the Sept. 5 collision near East Tropicana Avenue and South McLeod Drive.
