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New Year’s Celebration in Las Vegas Might Be A Hard Blow For People

Article by : Helen Jan 25, 2021

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Updated: Apr 6, 2023

Nevada’s health official assumes that people who visited Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve are infected with the Covid-19 virus. Anyone welcoming 2021 in Vegas might be blamed for tightening Covid-19 restrictions in the Nevada state. According to the official, partygoers might not realize they are infected and dangerous for the others. If they won’t stop ignoring the existing recommendations and continue to gather on the streets, spreading the virus may significantly worsen.

Health officials and the state’s governor are not the only people who believe that New Year’s celebration might lead to virus spread accelerating. Caleb Cage, Nevada’s Covid-19 expert, who earlier got over the Coronavirus, was interviewed by RTNV-TV. He said that Vegas visitors on 31 December evening had had high chances of being infected with the virus. They might currently actively disseminate the virus without even knowing it as far as symptoms are not always shown. One of the biggest problems related to the virus is that people might be infected even if they are asymptomatic.

“It was a risk to go out on New Year’s Eve. The governor made it clear. It seems an awful lot like the city worked very hard in order to skirt the spirit and the letter of the directives as they are written in order to protect us.

Ahead of Eve, he claimed that the annual event on FSE could disrupt to contain the virus in Nevada.

“To organize or promote gatherings with the tickets or fee as if it’s business as usual, that’s just plain irresponsible. The science prevails, and the science says the more people in a gathering, it is guaranteed that a portion is going to have COVID, either symptomatic or asymptomatic,” claimed Steve Sisosak trying to prevent the potential partygoers from visiting popular venues on New Year’s Eve. That’s why a limitation on gatherings was put in place a few months ago, and no more than 50 people could be in the same place. Ahead of the expected celebration, some pics appeared on news sites and social media showing crowds of people where far not all participants wear the mask.

The situation on New Year’s Eve really got out of hand, and Megan Brownhill, who was working on a tattoo booth on the Fremont Street Experience that night, saw how many people were gathering on the streets. Moreover, some of her clients were without masks, and now she is disturbed by the fact that her colleague has been recently tested positive for Coronavirus. A pedestrian mall and attraction in the downtown of the city, FSE, were supposed to accept the guests from the local hotels, but anyone could actually visit this place.

After the celebration, health officials are concerned about the possible outbreak and plan to supervise the situation more precisely. Two-thirds of the state’s population is concentrated in Clark County, where Las Vegas is located, and the number of deaths here is 2,424 out of 3,210 reported cases in the whole state. Health officials have asked Nevada’s residents to take this situation seriously so that it would be nice to limit personal interactions in the near future.

Anyway, this New Year’s Eve wasn’t as spectacular as usual, and the exuberant display on the Strip, the annual party downtown, as well as fireworks, were canceled. Jessica Snyder, one of the partygoers, said: “We are nervous and excited for 2021. But still anxious because Covid isn’t going away.”