Clark County adds 120 new COVID-19 cases, reports death of woman in her 30sFree

Clark County reported 120 new COVID-19 cases and one death on Wednesday, a woman in her 30s with underlying health conditions.

Clark County Public Health said the new fatality brings the county’s total deaths from COVID-19 to 132, with 122 confirmed and 10 suspect deaths. She was the fourth person in her 30s to have died from COVID-19 since the pandemic began.

To date, the county has tallied the deaths of two people in their 40s from COVID-19, six people in their 50s, 20 people in their 60s, 33 people in their 70s and 67 people age 80 or older. No deaths have been reported for anyone under the age of 30, according to data from Clark County Public Health.

The new cases reported Wednesday bring the county’s total number of COVID-19 cases to date to 11,318. The county has averaged about 138 new cases a day since Friday, down slightly from about 178 cases per day in the previous week, according to Public Health Data.

There were 60 people hospitalized with COVID-19 and three others hospitalized awaiting test results, according to Public Health data.

The number of active cases, individuals with COVID-19 who are still in their isolation period and considered contagious, dropped slightly to 843 in Public Health data.

The COVID-19 activity rate as of earlier this week was at 450.56 new cases per 100,000 population over the past two weeks.