President Donald Trump announced the executive order in a Monday night tweet. As of Tuesday morning, the White House has offered no details of Trump’s forthcoming order. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration revealed that the test had received emergency approval. The new kit, produced by North Carolina-based LabCorp, allows people to collect their own sample from home and send it to be tested. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
People fill up their vehicles at Costco off of Martin Luther King Boulevard in Las Vegas on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (Elizabeth Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Nearly two months after testing positive, and three weeks since waking from a coma, Ronald Pipkins, 55, the first coronavirus patient in Nevada, was released from the VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas on April 20, 2020. (Veterans Health Administration)
Local businesses, Summit Restoration and Immaculate Restoration are offering free cleaning and disinfecting of vehicles for health care workers and first responders. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
U.S. crude prices reached their lowest level on record, with West Texas Intermediate crude dropping to minus $37.63 a barrel on April 20. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Oil Prices Plummet to
Minus $37 a Barrel.
U.S. crude prices reached their lowest
level on record, with West Texas Intermediate
crude dropping to minus $37.63 a barrel.
Oil’s May contract, known as its front month,
has been hit the hardest with deliveries set to
take place while the country is on lockdown.
As demand for gasoline
from refineries decreases,
storage tanks are also
beginning to near their limits.
We are seeing real pressure on storage as a consequence of the collapse in demand, ANZ strategist Daniel Hynes, via ‘Squawk Box’.
OPEC and its oil-producing partners finalized
a historic agreement earlier this month to cut
production by 9.7 million barrels per day on May 1
The YMCA of Southern Nevada in conjunction with with the Clark County School District is furnishing a drive-thru for a free lunch program at the Bill & Lillie Heinrich YMCA, Durango Hills YMCA and SkyView YMCA in Las Vegas. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Wynn Resorts Ltd.’s CEO hopes to see the Strip “slowly begin” to reopen in the next month, according to an updated health and sanitation plan published Sunday morning. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Institutional living facilities where it is difficult to adhere to social distancing guidelines have been hard hit by the spread of COVID-19
With the aid of a court order, Sheriff Joe Lombardo is expected to release hundreds of inmates from the Clark County Detention Center because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Southern Nevada Health District gave an update on the COVID-19 situation to media members in Nevada via telebriefing .
New numbers by the Southern Nevada Health District show COVID-19 disproportionately killing Black and Asian Clark County residents compared to their White and Hispanic counterparts.RJ investigations reporter Michael Scott Davidson and Renee Summerour discuss why that is, other factors revealed in these numbers including gender and age.
The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo housing market index dropped 58 percent from March to a score of 30 this month, the largest monthly change in the history of the index.
RJ business reporter Bailey Schulz talk about The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation took additional steps adding a new phone line with about 100 workers and reiterating a new online filing system.
Renee Summerour sits down with Dr. Brian Labus, Epidemiologist with the UNLV School of Public Health and the governor’s medical advisory team, and Rj Health reporter Mary Hynes to answer viewer questions regarding the Coronavirus spread in Nevada.
HAS NEVADA PEAKED IN COVID-19 CASES?
HAS GOV. SISOLAK’S SOCIAL DISTANCING ORDERS HELPED?
WILL GOV. SISOLAK REOPEN THE ECONOMY SOON?
WHAT DOES COVID-19 ZIP CODE MAP SAY ABOUT THE SPREAD?
ANTIBODY TESTING? BENEFITS? CONCERNS?
Henry Kronberg is turning 100 years old friends in cars will drive by his house to wish him a happy birthday during the quarantine. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
From April 14 to April 30, chefs from the MGM Resorts International will cook and donate 1,000 hot meals a day for Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
RJ health reporter Mary Hynes talks about why University Medical Center started prescribing hydroxychloroquine, how they are doing it and what a patient needs to have in order to receive it. (Renee Summerour/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Clark County and the city of Las Vegas invited media to tour their ISO-1 (Isolation and Quarantine) Complex for the homeless Monday morning, hours before it is expected to accept its first patients. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Hunter Renfrow and cornerback Isaiah Johnson have been doing their best to keep themselves busy during quarantine. Renfrow is spending his time in South Carolina, while Johnson is in Houston. The 2019 rookies both suffered injuries this past season and were hoping to come back stronger than ever the second time around, but the coronavirus had different plans for the NFL offseason. Vegas Nation host Cassie Soto spoke with both players and asked how they have been staying in shape as well as what shows they have binge watched during quarantine.
A group of protesters on Easter Sunday drove down the Las Vegas Strip to Fremont Street and back.
The Air Force “Thunderbirds flew over the Las Vegas valley in support of those on the front lines in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Residents of a Henderson neighborhood got together for a party that abides by social distancing guidelines.
NFR shared a compilation video with a message of hope for fans of the rodeo during the coronavirus pandemic.
Las Vegas Raiders players, including Hunter Renfrow, Alec Ingold, Josh Jacobs and Foster Moreau, are partnering with Three Square to help make sure those in need have access to food during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Thunderbirds honor all of the workers fighting the Coronavirus by flying over the Las Vegas Valley on Saturday.
A local Las Vegas chef goes over how to prevent cross-contamination and what the proper steps are when handling food.
Now that we’ve been asked to wear masks in public, people are showing us their masks. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The RJ’s Subrina Hudson talks about when Nevadans will receive their unemployment checks, if they will receive back pay and who qualifies for the aid. (Renee Summerour/Las Vegas Review-Journal)