Clark County adds more than 8.1K new COVID cases over 3 days

Clark County connected Monday reported much than 8,100 caller cases of COVID-19 implicit the preceding 3 days arsenic the omicron-fueled surge of the illness continued unabated.

Updated figures from the Southern Nevada Health District showed 8,104 caller cases of the illness caused by the caller coronavirus from Friday done Sunday, pushing the full for the region to 377,518 cases.

The territory reported nary caller deaths successful the region implicit the period, though that fig is not reliable since nary deaths person been reported connected weekends for much than a month, seemingly owed to lags successful reporting. The decease toll successful the region remained unchanged from Friday’s update astatine 6,461.

Data guide: COVID-19’s interaction connected Nevada

The authorities Department of Health and Human Services had not yet updated its COVID-19 information arsenic of midday Monday, truthful different metrics for the region specified arsenic trial positivity complaint and the 14-day moving mean of caller cases could not instantly beryllium calculated.

The more-contagious omicron variant of COVID-19 is playing a relation successful the rising tide of cases successful the region and state, though nationalist wellness officials accidental the delta variant remains the ascendant strain.

As of Monday, the authorities nationalist wellness laboratory had identified 92 cases involving omicron, astir of them successful Clark and Washoe counties. Early grounds indicates omicron does not pb to superior complications arsenic often arsenic the delta variant, but officials stay acrophobic that it could nevertheless overwhelm hospitals and pb to a surge successful deaths owed to the sheer fig of infections.

Update connected breakthrough cases

The wellness territory besides updated its reporting connected alleged breakthrough cases successful which afloat vaccinated residents nevertheless go infected by the coronavirus.

The caller report, dated Dec. 29, showed 2,762 caller breakthrough cases, 15 hospitalizations and 3 deaths implicit the preceding week. That pushed totals for the region to 19,501 breakthrough cases, 845 hospitalizations and 249 deaths.

Four of those caller cases were identified arsenic being caused by omicron, a information constituent that underrepresents the existent fig arsenic lone a constricted fig of trial samples are genetically sequenced to find which strain of the microorganism caused them.

Breakthrough cases continued to emergence successful December, with the last study of the period showing they accounted for 32.20 percent of full cases successful the county.

But the information continues to enactment nationalist wellness officials’ connection that vaccination provides beardown extortion against the much superior consequences of the illness.

As of the astir caller report, the decease complaint among the afloat vaccinated stood astatine 21 per 100,000 colonisation compared to 546 per 100,000 for unvaccinated individuals.

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