Clark County’s key COVID-19 metrics continue recent declines

Clark County connected Monday reported 1,145 caller coronavirus cases and 20 deaths implicit the preceding 3 days arsenic each 4 cardinal COVID-19 metrics continued their caller declines.

Updated figures posted by the Southern Nevada Health District pushed totals for the region to to 318,665 cases and 5,579 deaths.

New cases successful the region were beneath the two-week moving mean of 406 erstwhile averaged implicit 3 days, arsenic the inclination enactment itself continued to borderline lower, dipping from 409 connected Friday.

Deaths were somewhat supra the mean for the play of six per day, but the 14-day moving mean was down from 9 connected Friday.

Hospitalizations besides continued downward, with 623 suspected oregon confirmed COVID-19 cases successful region hospitals, down from 653 successful Friday’s report.

The 14-day trial positivity rate, which tracks the percent of radical tested for COVID-19 who are recovered to beryllium infected, dropped 0.2 percent constituent to 8.2 percent.

That translates to a 8.93 percent complaint utilizing a seven-day average, which puts the region successful the “substantial” class of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s metrics.

To exit Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak’s mask mandate, the region indispensable grounds back-to-back weeks with a positivity complaint of 8.0 percent oregon little and less than 50 caller COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents. As of Monday, the county’s complaint successful that class stood astatine 142.85 cases per 100,000 implicit the past week.

That’s down sharply from the 189.92 per 100,000 reported past week.

All Nevada counties presently are rated successful the CDC’s “high” complaint of transmission tier. State officials volition update the state’s disguise guidelines connected Tuesday, but each of Nevada is expected to proceed to beryllium nether a disguise mandate.

The state, meanwhile, reported 1,981 caller cases and 30 deaths. That was the fewest caller cases reported aft a play successful much than 2 months.

That brought authorities totals to 418,477 cases and 7,045 deaths, according to numbers posted by the authorities Department of Health and Human Services.

The 14-day moving mean of caller cases itself roseate somewhat from 790 to 793. But caller cases were beneath the average, erstwhile dispersed implicit 3 days. The 14-day moving mean of regular fatalities dropped from 14 to 11.

State and region wellness agencies often redistribute regular information aft it is reported to amended bespeak the day of decease oregon onset of symptoms, which is wherefore the moving-average inclination lines often disagree from regular reports and are considered amended indicators of the absorption of the outbreak.

The state’s two-week trial positivity complaint dropped 0.3 percent constituent to 10.6 percent.

The complaint has retreated from its caller precocious of 16.4 percent connected Aug. 13, according to authorities data. Since then, it dropped rapidly earlier flattening implicit the past 10 days.

The authorities besides reported that 899 radical successful Nevada were hospitalized with confirmed oregon suspected COVID-19 cases, 23 less than reported connected Friday. That fig has been dropping consistently implicit the past week.

As of Monday’s report, 55.27 percent of Nevadans 12 and older had been afloat vaccinated. That fig was astatine 54.64 for Clark County.

That rate, though, varies wide from region to county. Carson City has the state’s highest vaccination rate, astatine 65.22 percent, portion Storey County is connected the different extremity of the spectrum astatine 19.04 percent.

County numbers are included successful the statewide totals.

Contact Jonah Dylan astatine jdylan@reviewjournal.com. Follow @TheJonahDylan connected Twitter.