\nI do want to recommend \u2014 especially if you\u2019re unvaccinated \u2014 reconsider traveling to places where the seven-day COVID-19 case rates are increasingly high, like Nevada, our neighbor,\u201d said Dr. Muntu Davis, a Los Angeles health official.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
On Friday, Nevada reported more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases, according to the Associated Press. Hospitalizations exceeded the 1,000 mark for the first time in more than five months.<\/p>\n
A surge in cases since mid-May involving the highly contagious delta variant has led health officials to renew the push for vaccinations.<\/p>\n
Nationwide, about 69 percent of eligible people have received at least one dose of vaccine, the Associated Press reported. In Nevada, 56 percent of residents 12 years and older have received one dose. About 47 percent of eligible Nevadans are fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n
Casino Employees Mask Up<\/h2>\n
The Nevada Gaming Control Board stressed that it will enforce a mask mandate to match the one that Clark County recently issued for its employees working in public spaces, according to Chairman J. Brin Gibson.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a partner in the mitigation and management of the COVID-19 pandemic since its inception, the Board is fully supportive of the Southern Nevada Health District and the Clark County Commission in its mask mandate for employees in Clark County. The Board will ensure compliance with this requirement in Clark County within the Board\u2019s areas of jurisdiction,\u201d Gibson said.<\/p>\n
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This renewed threat to Las Vegas tourism is coming at a time when the area has seen an uptick in visitors<\/a>. Vassiliadis told the newspaper he is optimistic, however.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u201cWe know that we\u2019re doing everything we can to get people here vaccinated, and now employees are going to be masked,\u201d he said. \u201cSome of the properties have 90 percent vaccination rates among employees.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority will work with health officials to set up vaccination sites at casinos, according to a news report. The LVCVA wants to get the word out locally that vaccinations are important to individual lives and to the state\u2019s tourism industry, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.\u00a0 The LVCVA plans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":180978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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