The state’s positivity rate held steady, marking the first time it has remained flat or declined over a three-day period since mid-June.
Mike Brunker
Mike Brunker is an assistant city editor working with reporters covering land use and environment, health care and immigration. He also writes a weekly horse racing column. Before joining the Review-Journal in August 2016, Brunker worked in various reporting and editing capacities for NBCNews.com, msnbc.com and the San Francisco Examiner.
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Data posted Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services pushed total cases in the state to 70,223, while the fatalities raised the death toll to 1,363.
The decline in the state’s cumulative infection or positivity rate registered its first decline in nearly a month, according to state data posted Wednesday.
Data posted on the state’s nvhealthresponse.nv.gov website raised the case total for the state to 69,633 and raised the death toll to 1,313.
Both new cases and new fatalities were were well below the daily averages of the preceding week of just over 472 and 15, respectively.
New figures posted by the Department of Health and Human Services raised the case total for the state to 67,852 and the death toll to 1,287.
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New cases were slightly above the daily average of nearly 520 over the preceding week, and fatalities were slightly above the daily average of nearly 17 for the period.
The state Department of Health and Human Services and the Southern Nevada Health District reported 253 and 152 new cases, respectively, but deaths remained high with 20 added.
Nevada recorded 403 new cases of COVID-19 over the preceding day, but fatalities from the disease rose by 30 — the fourth-highest one-day increase of the outbreak.
New figures posted on the state’s nvhealthresponse.nv.gov website, bringing the case total for the state to 66,010 and the death toll to 1,200.
After several below-average new cases reports, the metric rebounded to its highest level in a week, well above the daily average of just over 667 for the preceding week.
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Nevada reported 556 new cases of COVID-19 and a record 38 deaths on Thursday, as the death toll in Clark County surpassed 1,000.