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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