COVID-19 deaths, positivity rate tick upward in Clark County

Clark County recorded 458 caller COVID-19 cases and 4 deaths during the preceding day, according to information posted online Friday.

Updated figures from the Southern Nevada Health District pushed totals for the region to 323,940 cases of the illness caused by the caller coronavirus and 5,743 deaths.

New cases were good supra the county’s 14-day moving mean of 351 per day, but the mean itself was 22 little than the 373 reported connected Wednesday, the astir caller time disposable owed to an outage of the authorities reporting strategy connected Thursday.

The mean has been declining since it reached a caller precocious of 1,193 connected Aug. 19, with the autumn accelerating starting successful mid-September. As of Friday’s report, the metric had declined much than 70 percent from the caller peak.

Fatalities successful the county, meanwhile, were beneath the 14-day mean of 7 per day, which nevertheless accrued by 1 from Wednesday’s report.

Deaths besides person been declining since reaching a caller precocious of 22 per time connected Aug. 29. Even with the summation reported Friday successful the two-week average, the metric has fallen much than 68 percent from the high.

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The trial positivity rate, meanwhile, jumped by 0.2 percent points to 6.9 percent, the archetypal clip the scale has moved higher since it ticked upward by 0.1 percent constituent connected Sept. 13.

Apart from those increases, the metric has been declining steadily since reaching a caller precocious of 15.7 percent connected Aug. 8.

Hospitalizations of confirmed and suspected COVID-19 patients successful the region declined to 601 arsenic of Friday’s report, down from 644 connected Wednesday. The fig of hospitalized has declined astir 49 percent from its caller precocious of 1,168 connected Aug. 10, authorities information show.

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, meanwhile, reported 1,412 caller COVID-19 cases and 39 deaths aft not reporting updated information connected Thursday owed to technological issues.

The caller figures posted by the Department of Health and Human Services brought totals for the authorities to 426,407 cases of the illness and 7,285 deaths.

The authorities trial positivity complaint was 8.4 percent, down 0.1 percent points from the past update connected Wednesday.

Hospitalizations of COVID-19 patients stood astatine 863, down 20 from Wednesday’s report.

As of Friday’s report, authorities information amusement that 54.62 percent of Nevadans 12 and older had been afloat vaccinated, compared to 53.84 percent successful Clark County.

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