Clark County’s autumn surge in COVID-19 cases accelerated this week, with 95 new cases Friday pushing the seven-day total to a record 527 cases.
One new death was reported Friday, a woman in her 50s with no underlying health conditions, pushing the week’s death count from COVID-19 total to three and the total to date to 73.
The number of active cases surged to 322, up 10.6 percent, according to Public Health. That statistic measures cases still in their isolation period.
There were 35 people hospitalized with COVID-19 and one person hospitalized awaiting test results, according to Public Health.
The 527 cases reported in the seven days ending Friday represents an average of about 75 new cases every day. The total was up 34.8 percent from the 391 reported for the seven days that ended Oct. 30.
New COVID-19 cases have been ratcheting upward since this summer, from a weekly low of 149 cases for the week ending Aug. 28. Seven-day totals rose to 181 on Sept. 4 and remained near that total for three weeks before jumping to 223 on Sept. 25, 250 on Oct. 2, and 251 on Oct. 9. Totals reached 319 cases on Oct. 16 and dipped slightly before surging to 391 on Oct. 30 and 527 on Friday.
The most recent data on COVID-19 testing, from Oct. 11-17, showed that the percentage of positive tests had risen to 5.63 percent on 5,453 tests from a low of 3.57 from Sept. 27 through Oct. 3 on 6,808 tests, despite fewer tests being administered.
COVID-19 testing
| Date range |
Positive tests |
Total tests |
Percent positive |
| To date* |
4,331 |
129,862 |
3.34% |
| Sept. 6-12 |
175 |
4,835 |
3.62% |
| Sept. 13-19 |
231 |
5,241 |
4.41% |
| Sept. 20-26 |
246 |
6,532 |
3.77% |
| Sept. 27-Oct. 3 |
243 |
6,808 |
3.57% |
| Oct. 4-10 |
311 |
7,022 |
4.43% |
| Oct. 11-17 |
307 |
5,453 |
5.63% |
The state would like for counties to have less than 2 percent of tests return positive to enter Phase 3 of the COVID-19 recovery plan.
