Nevada recorded its highest one-day number of new COVID-19 cases in nearly a month, with 618 recorded the previous day, according to state data published Thursday.
The figure was the largest since the state reported 813 new cases on Feb. 13, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services published on the state’s coronavirus website. The state data showed that it was also significantly higher than the 14-day moving average of 234 new cases per day.
The state also reported 13 new deaths due to the new coronavirus, which was also well above the 14-day moving average of five deaths per day.
The new report put the state at 297,765 cases and 5,080 deaths.
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Despite the above-average number of cases and deaths, the state’s positivity rate remained unchanged at 6.0 percent. The rate, which follows the percentage of people tested for COVID-19 who are confirmed to be infected, has been steadily declining since reaching a high of 22.7 percent on January 14th.
State and county health agencies often redistribute data after it has been reported to better reflect the date of death or onset of symptoms, so moving average trends often differ from daily reports and are considered better indicators of the direction of the outbreak. .
There were 347 people hospitalized in Nevada with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases, 20 fewer than the previous day, according to state data. Hospitalizations have declined since reaching a peak of 2,126 on December 22nd.
The Southern Nevada Health District, meanwhile, reported 541 new COVID-19 cases and 11 deaths in Clark County during the preceding day.
This brought the total number of cases in the country to 229 956 and deaths to 3 971.
The test positivity rate in the country continued its recent decline, by 0.2 percentage points to 6.4 percent.
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