Clark County reports 12 new COVID-19 cases, no deaths
Clark County saw a dozen new cases of COVID-19 and no additional deaths in the preceding day, the Southern Nevada Health District reported Monday.
The 12 new cases was the lowest overnight increase reported by the district since the early days of the outbreak in Nevada and brought the county total to 4,762 cases.
The district estimates that 3,398 of those patients have recovered.
Deaths in the county attributed to the disease caused by the new coronavirus remained unchanged at 260, according to data posted on the district’s coronavirus web page.
The state Department of Health and Human Services, meanwhile, reported 54 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total for Nevada to 6,152. That figure also was well below the average of 96 cases per day the preceding week.
The state also reported six new deaths, bringing the state total to 312.
While the number of new cases and deaths in the state and county tends to fluctuate from day to day, other indicators have been trending downward for weeks now, including the infection and hospitalization rates, intensive care unit utilization and others.
In other developments Monday:
— Public health officials in Washoe County reported five new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total for Nevada’s second-most-populous county to 1,100. The Regional Information Center also reported 32 new recoveries from the illness, bringing the total to 529.
— The state reported an unusual cluster of COVID-19 cases at a Northern Nevada shelter for abused and neglected children, with five staff members and four children testing positive. No information on the cases at Kids Kottage in Reno was included with the data posted on the nvhealthresponse.nv.gov website, though local news reports last week indicated that a Washoe County Human Services Agency contractor working at the shelter had contracted the disease. Data show that children are seldom diagnosed with the disease, with those under 10 accounting for less than 1 percent of the state’s total cases.
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