The statewide total was up from 86 cases as of late Wednesday.
Mary Hynes
Mary Hynes returned to the Review-Journal in August 2019 as the newspaper’s health reporter after working in public affairs and communications for MGM Resorts International. She previously worked as an editor and a reporter at the RJ. The University of Colorado graduate also worked as a reporter at newspapers in Colorado. She is a native of Oregon.
Reported cases of COVID-19 in Clark County have increased by 27, from 42 to 69, the Southern Nevada Health District announced on Wednesday. Nye and Douglas counties report their first cases.
On Wednesday, the district clarified that it is still doing some testing but is “asking health care providers to send their specimens to private laboratories for testing.”
On Sunday, Dr. Marianne Hazelitt began her quest to be tested for COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus.
The VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System announced Monday it is implementing new precautions aimed at protecting patients and staff at the VA Medical Center in Las Vegas.
The Southern Nevada Health District on Monday also reported 19 new cases, bringing the county’s total to 35, and raised the risk of contracting the virus to “moderate.”
Figures provided to the Review-Journal last week by the only two public labs in the state indicate that only a few hundred tests had been administered so far.
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.
Touro University Nevada in Henderson will transition to online course instruction next week as a precaution against the new coronavirus, the university announced Thursday night.
The Southern Nevada Health District is reporting three new “presumptive positive” COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of cases of the new coronavirus to five in Clark County and seven in Nevada.
Those 18 and under have made up just 2.4 percent of cases of COVID-19 worldwide, according to a report released in late February by the World Health Organization.
The health care workers are under home quarantine after exposure to a patient there who tested positive for the new coronavirus, a hospital spokesman confirmed late Monday.
The patient with the second presumptive positive case of COVID-19 in Southern Nevada is a woman in her 70s.
The Southern Nevada Health District has received a report of a second presumptive positive case of COVID-19 in a Clark County resident.
Few Nevadans have been tested so far, but positive tests for two state residents, the arrival of more federal test kits and new testing by private labs should change that.