The variant first identified in India accounted for nearly half of the Nevada cases analyzed by the state’s public health laboratory the last two weeks of June. “We are in a serious race against the fast spread of the delta variant.” “It’s really alarming,” he told KSNV-TV in Las Vegas over the weekend. Nevada’s first death from the variant was confirmed in Washoe County last week. Cassius Lockett, the Southern Nevada Health District’s director of disease surveillance and control, said the recent rise in positivity is being driven in large part by the delta variant. “We have a lot of anti-vaxxers, frankly, in the state of Nevada.”ĭr. “We are a state of skeptics when it comes to vaccines,” state biostatistician Kyra Morgan told The Associated Press last week. But in Nevada, only 53% of those who are eligible have received one shot at 45% are fully vaccinated. More than two-thirds of the country’s adult population has been at least partly vaccinated. Visitor numbers, while not at their pre-pandemic highs, have grown by double digits four months in a row.
Las Vegas and most of Nevada fully reopened and lifted restrictions on most businesses June 1, though many casino-resorts had already returned to 100% capacity before that with approval from state regulators. The highest rates in Nevada are in Storey County, at 20%, and Elko County, at 17.2%. 12, 2020.Ĭlark County, including Las Vegas, is driving the current dramatic climb in the positivity rate at 8.7%, compared with 4.6% in the Reno-Sparks area of Washoe County. 12, a month after the average number of new cases reached a record-high of 2,740 on Dec.
Nevada’s positivity rate peaked at 21.2% on Jan. 23.Īs of Tuesday, Nevada trailed only Missouri and Arkansas with the third-highest count of new coronavirus cases per capita of any state with 14 per 100,000 people.ĬOVID-19 related hospitalizations in Nevada, rising since the beginning of June, also have surpassed 500 for the first time since February. That is also the last time the state’s positivity rate had reached as high as 8% - 8.3% on Feb. But the 377 new cases on average reported July 4 was the highest it has been since 375 in February. Nevada’s 14-day rolling average for new cases had dropped to 132 the first week of June, with the positivity rate bottoming out at 3.3% on June 9. Meanwhile, Nevada reported its second death from the COVID-19 delta variant, a Washoe County man in his 50s with an underlying health condition who had not been vaccinated.
(AP) - The COVID-19 positivity rate in Nevada has more than doubled over the last month to 7.9%, and the average number of new daily cases statewide has climbed to its highest level since February, health officials say.
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