Nevada’s COVID numbers are at their best level in a year with the positivity rate down to just 3.8 percent of those tested in the past 14 days.
In addition, the state is reporting a rolling average of 124 new daily cases and an average of just two deaths for the past 14 days.
The Nevada Hospital Association reports just 212 confirmed or suspected hospitalizations because of the virus, only 53 patients in the ICUs around the state and just two deaths in the past day.
Only five Nevada counties exceed the 5 percent cutoff for test positivity, all of them rural where small populations can cause those numbers to vary widely over just a few days.
Carson’s positivity rate was 3 percent, Churchill’s 4.2 percent and Lyon 4.4 percent. Washoe reported a 3.4 percent rate.
Storey County, meanwhile, was at zero percent.
But Douglas suffered a spike in the past few days to 7.4 percent — still below the 8 percent cutoff set by the state for determining risk of transmission.
Douglas, Elko, Lincoln and Eureka counties are the only ones flagged for increased risk of transmission.
Nevada now has a total of 324,262 confirmed COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic and 5,590 deaths.
