Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak will hold a press conference today, Monday, at 5 p.m. to provide an update on Nevada’s COVID-19 response efforts. The press conference will be inside the Old Assembly Chamber of the Nevada State Capitol in Carson City.
The press conference will be carried live on local TV channels. The last press conference was on July 27. In that conference Sisolak announced Nevada would transition to a long-term mitigation strategy for the state, which was scheduled to be rolled out Monday. Sisolak explained the plan would help the state to achieve two important goals: providing predictability for businesses, local governments and individuals and it invests in the fight together.
During a briefing following the July 27 press conference, Sisolak said the strategy will include the following key components:
— Updated criteria that more cleanly follows overall trends, minimizes the week-to-week or day-to-day fluctuation for counties, and better demonstrates which counties are getting progressively better or worse, and therefore which should tighten up or loosen mitigation efforts.
— Predictability by creating a long-term system of mitigation levels that will allow our businesses and resident to have advanced notice and understanding on what direction their county could be heading based on updated criteria.
— Increased enforcement to ensure businesses and communities enforce our mitigation efforts are key in helping reduce the spread, which is why the long-term strategy will have the goal of stricter enforcement of our safety rules.
— Targeted approaches to counties, businesses and industries that have shown the need for additional assistance and intervention to slow the spread of this deadly virus.
Additionally, the governor announced that four counties which previously needed to take the additional mitigation efforts of closing bars, pubs, taverns and wineries to slow the spread of COVID-19 must continue those measures for another week. Those counties are Clark, Elko, Nye and Washoe.
