Workers in Las Vegas and other parts of Clark County, Nevada, will have to resume wearing masks indoors but customers will not under new rules.
The Clark County Commission voted Tuesday in an emergency meeting to require face coverings for all employees working indoors and around co-workers or members of the public in an increase in Covid cases driven byThe new rules do not apply to customers, and it is not a blanket return to masking, like the one"We have already been through a shutdown and a start-up, and we cannot afford to have major conventions decide to go elsewhere," Commissioner Jim Gibson said.
Covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths are rising across Nevada and the rest of the U.S., fueled by theClark County has experienced almost triple the number of Covid-19 cases since early June and a tripling of the positivity rate, said Dr. Cort Lohff, chief medical officer for the Southern Nevada Health District. The increases are being driven by the delta variant, he said, as well as a plateauing of the vaccination rate.
The regional health district recommended Friday that all people, both those fully vaccinated and those unvaccinated, wear masks in crowded indoor public places.
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