Vegas officials recommend masks again indoors, despite vaccination, amid rising COVID cases.

Masks are back in Las Vegas, where local health officials pointed Friday to a rising variety of coronavirus cases and encouraged everybody – vaccinated or not – to wear facial coverings in crowded indoor places.

The suggestion from the Southern Nevada Health District isn’t a requirement. It might impact gambling establishments, shows, and clubs during a hectic summertime weekend for out-of-town visitors.

Seven weeks ago, Nevada raised coronavirus restrictions and returned pandemic control measures to counties.

This week, the top public health medical professional in Los Angeles called for Californians to reassess traveling to Nevada till COVID-19 case numbers in the Silver State reduction.

Nevada health officials on Thursday reported the most substantial one-day coronavirus case jump in the state given that February.

They said test positivity, a vital marker of the percentage of individuals found to be infected amongst those evaluated for the infection, had tripled from 3.4% five weeks ago to the increase of 10.9% this past Thursday.

The positivity figure documented by the state Department of Health and Person Solutions was 12.3% in the Las Vegas location.

The state tallied 938 brand-new cases of COVID-19 statewide on Thursday and 15 recent deaths, bringing to 5,752 the number of deaths in Nevada attributed to COVID-19 since March 2020.