Sisolak: No plans to reimpose business restrictions, closures

Gov. Steve Sisolak points to a map where the COVID-19 surge teams are concentrating on in Clark County during a news conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, July. 22, 2021.
Photo: Jeff Scheid / The Nevada Independent

by Geoff Dornan

Amid concerns of rising cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19, Gov. Steve Sisolak told reporters Thursday, Aug. 5, he has no plans to re-impose capacity limits, order business closures, “or anything like that.”

“Everything we are doing is aimed at preventing that,” he said during a press conference in Las Vegas.

Unlike last year, he said, “we have a real solution this time — vaccines.”

“Almost every COVID-19 death we have seen since January 2021 has been a case of individuals who have not been fully vaccinated,” Sisolak said.

He said many people have raised concerns about the Delta variant being able to infect vaccinated people, but, nationwide, the rate of those cases is just 0.0004 percent.

Many people and businesses have protested his recent order to again mandate masks in indoor public settings. He said it was necessary.

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