Clark County reports 934 new COVID-19 cases

Clark County connected Friday reported 934 caller coronavirus cases and nary deaths implicit the preceding day.

Statewide statistic and different metrics were not disposable due to the fact that of the holiday, but the fig of caller cases reported was successful enactment with the important summation already seen this week.

That brought totals posted by the Southern Nevada Health District to 357,899 cases and 6,415 deaths successful the county.

The region reported 1,107 caller cases connected Wednesday, the highest single-day fig successful astir 5 months, arsenic officials person go progressively acrophobic astir the emergence successful cases being driven by the vacation play and the emergence of the omicron variant.

The variant is believed to beryllium much transmittable than erstwhile ones, but preliminary studies suggest that it is little apt to origin superior illness.

The emergence of omicron crossed the federation has already impacted aggregate events successful Las Vegas. A assemblage hoops crippled betwixt UCLA and Ohio State acceptable for Dec. 18 astatine T-Mobile Arena was called off, and respective large tech companies announced this week they would not attend oregon would standard backmost information successful adjacent month’s CES conference.

The authorities Department of Health and Human Services is expected to update the statewide dashboard connected Monday with numbers from the agelong weekend.

As of Wednesday, authorities totals stood astatine 474,023 cases and 8,364 deaths.

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