Clark County adds most COVID-19 cases in more than 3 weeks

Clark County recorded 479 caller COVID-19 cases and 11 further deaths during the preceding day, according to information from the Southern Nevada Health District posted Friday.

The updated figures pushed region totals to 331,586 cases and 5,974 deaths since the onset of the pandemic successful March 2020. The fig of caller COVID-19 cases was the highest single-day full reported by the territory since Oct. 6, erstwhile it tallied 529.

The Department of Health and Human Services did not station an update of authorities figures, seemingly owed to the Nevada Day holiday. That made it intolerable to comparison the regular figures to the two-week moving mean arsenic calculated by the state.

Separately, the wellness territory reported 11,104 s0-called breakthrough cases among afloat vaccinated radical successful an update posted precocious Thursday. That was an summation of 503 cases compared to the erstwhile week’s report.

The microorganism has killed 183 afloat vaccinated radical successful Clark County, including 13 successful the past week.

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There person been 11,104 COVID-19 breakthrough cases reported successful Clark County, oregon conscionable implicit 3 percent of the region total.

Only astir 2 percent of breakthrough infections person landed radical successful the hospital, and 3 successful 4 of hospitalizations are among those 65 oregon older, galore of whom person underlying wellness conditions.

Public wellness experts accidental that breakthrough cases are expected and the information intelligibly amusement that vaccination is peculiarly effectual successful preventing superior complications from the disease.

“Given the ample fig of radical being vaccinated successful the United States and the precocious level of ongoing (COVID-19) circulation, thousands of symptomatic vaccine breakthrough cases are expected, adjacent if the vaccines stay arsenic effectual arsenic demonstrated during the objective trials,” the wellness territory said successful its play report.

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