Next-to-last Vax Nevada Days raffle set for Thursday evening

Gov. Steve Sisolak is scheduled to denote different circular of winners Thursday successful the seventh and penultimate Vax Nevada Days raffle.

The drafting was to beryllium held astatine 6 p.m. astatine Greater Nevada Field successful Reno, wherever the Reno Aces minor-league shot squad plays, according to a connection from the governor’s office.

Vax Nevada Days is simply a nationalist wellness inaugural announced in June by Sisolak to entice Nevadans to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Drawings person been held each Thursday since July 8. Last week, a section pistillate won $50,000 during the sixth raffle, which took spot successful Henderson.

Vaccinated Nevada residents are automatically included successful the raffle, authorities officials person said. Although astir residents won’t triumph a prize, “Every idiosyncratic is simply a victor if they get vaccinated,” Sisolak has said.

All told a full of $5 cardinal volition beryllium fixed distant to an estimated 2,000 residents.

Sisolak is expected to denote the expansive prize victor of $1 cardinal astatine the last drafting adjacent week.

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