While new cases, deaths and hospitals all have continued to fall this month, the forward-looking test positivity rate is right where it was at the beginning of the month.
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All COVID-19 metrics are showing marked improvement in Nevada and most models foresee new cases continuing to fall in the weeks and months ahead, a state expert said Thursday.
CDC data showed that Clark County had a case rate of 139.54 per 100,000 people, a slight increase from a week earlier but still significantly short of the number needed to exit the mask mandate.
New cases and hospitalizations extend recent declines as positivity rate remains unchanged at 7.0 percent.
It was the second straight increase reported in the forward-looking metric, which stood at 7.0 percent as of Monday’s update.
A Mineral County man first infected with the delta variant tests positive 22 days for a new substrain of the virus known as AY.26.
New cases, deaths, hospitalizations and positivity rate all dropped from the prior week, though the descent in the new cases rate slowed.
Clark County on Thursday reported 529 new coronavirus cases and 25 deaths during the preceding day.
Gov. Steve Sisolak made the comment on Thursday at a news conference to praise FEMA “surge teams” for increasing the state’s COVID-19 vaccination rates as the mission draws to a close.
Deaths from the disease caused by the new coronavirus hold steady in latest report, while hospitalizations tick down by one.