Angela Concepcion receives a COVID test from contact tracer Angie Viote at the Southern Nevada Health District Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022.
Monday, Jan. 10, 2022 | 2:21 p.m.
The Southern Nevada Health District reported nearly 8,000 new COVID-19 cases over the weekend, bringing the count to more than 400,000 since the outset of the pandemic in March 2020.
The highly contagious omicron variant is raging, with the test positivity rate in Clark County at 28.8%.
In total, there have been a total of 400,870 cases of the virus in the Las Vegas area, including 7,899 new cases tallied in the weekend report released today. A total of 6,110 positive tests were recorded on Friday, a daily record.
The Health District doesn’t release death counts on Mondays. That number remains unchanged at 6,544 since the start of the pandemic.
Nevada Health Response reports that 1,356 people are hospitalized as a result of the virus in Clark County.
