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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The funding is part of an emergency $560 million allocation to local government entities, the federal Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday.
A state update Wednesday on testing and tracking of cases of coronavirus-caused disease gave a confusing accounting on the number of current active cases in the state.
Since the first positive test of a Nevada patient for the coronavirus last week, state government has provided little new information.
The case, that of a Reno-area man in his 50s who is self-isolating at home, is the first in the state confirmed by the federal heath agency.
The state’s top medical and infectious disease officials reaffirmed to a legislative committee Wednesday that Nevada has seen no cases of the new coronavirus from China to date.