Clark County is one of eight in the state at risk of increased coronavirus transmission due to high rate and test positivity rates, a designation that requires officials to submit an action plan to reduce its spread, the state said Friday.
The counties were marked by the Nevada Health Response Team for meeting two or more criteria laid in the state’s road to recovery plan.
According to state data, the 1,006 Clark County cases per 100,000 people and 16.1 percent test positivity rate over the past two weeks have tested the limits in the recovery case of 200 cases per 100,000 residents and tested positivity figures of 7 percent.
The province was not flagged for the third criterion, the average number of tests per day per 100,000 people. It had 290.1 over the period, well above the threshold of 150.
If no two of the three metrics in the state recovery plan are met, the province falls into the “at risk” category.
All state-designated counties – Clark plus Carson City, Elko, Humboldt, Lander, Lincoln, Nye and Washoe counties – must now submit an action plan for evaluation and approval by the Nevada Health Response Team, a group of key state and local officials. .
The plans will include assessments of critical statewide metrics, as well as recommendations to address the assessments, including hospital capacity, access to personal protective equipment, capacity testing, contact tracing, protection of vulnerable populations and enforcement of public health rules, according to the state.
If a province is flagged again next Thursday, which means that it again meets two or more of the risk criteria, it must implement the approved plans by the next day. If a province falls less than two criteria, it will not have to take immediate action, the state said.
The warning follows Clark County’s designation by the White House last month as a “red zone” for the virus and a subsequent request from Gov. Steve Sisolak for increased action plans of local governments in the province.
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