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Nevada National Guard News Brief Low vaccination rates make many counties in the Mountain West especially vulnerable to the COVID-19 delta variant right now, according to data from the public health research group PHICOR. That’s prompting tough new action from some state and federal officials. On Thursday, President Biden announced he’s asking all federal employees to “attest” to their vaccination status. Those who aren’t vaccinated will also need to submit to weekly testing and will be mostly banned from travel. There are roughly 160,000 federal employees living in the Mounta...

Vegas employees to get coronavirus mask order, not tourists Associated Press 8 hrs ago By KEN RITTER, Associated Press © Provided by Associated Press FILE - In this Tuesday, April 27, 2021, file photo, masked and unmasked pedestrians walk across Las Vegas Boulevard, in Las Vegas. Elected officials in tourism-dependent Las Vegas worried Tuesday, July 20, 2021, about public health and the economic effects of a spike in COVID-19 cases, particularly the highly contagious delta variant. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) LAS VEGAS (AP) — Elected officials in tourism-dependent Las ...

By AI HEPING in New York | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-07-20 09:01 Share CLOSE A patient is helped into the Houston Methodist Hospital on July 16, 2021 in Houston, Texas. [Photo/Agencies] As residents of Los Angeles County enter their first week of being required to wear face masks because of rising numbers of coronavirus cases among unvaccinated people, new cases are increasing in all 50 states. The nationwide increase on Sunday was the fourth day in a row on a rolling seven-day average, a run not seen since the spring 2020 su...

View Comments Health officials from popular tourist destinations like Los Angeles and Las Vegas are asking more people to mask up indoors. The Southern Nevada Health District is now recommending people wear masks in crowded indoor public places – including Las Vegas casinos – regardless of vaccination status, according to a Friday statement.   The announcement comes one day after Los Angeles County announced that it would reinstate an indoor masking policy due to a recent surge in new COVID-19 cases. More counties in California followed with mask recommendations Friday. The mask gui...

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 08:24 UTC © Las Vegas Review-Journal An outbreak of Covid-19 among vaccinated staff at a Las Vegas hospital has highlighted the risks posed by the Delta variant in the US, as Nevada struggles with rising Covid cases and stagnating vaccination rates. Eleven workers at the Sunrise hospital and medical center, only one of whom was unvaccinated, tested positive for coronavirus after attending a party in early June, hospital officials confirmed to the Guardian. Sunrise's CEO, Todd P Sklamberg, said in a statement.: "The Centers for Disease Control has confirmed that 11 of our...