Seventh Lyon County death, four new Lyon County COVID-19 cases, two recoveries reported Friday

Robert Perea, The Fernley Reporter

The seventh death of a Lyon County resident with COVID-19 was reported Friday by the Quad County Emergency Operations Center, along with four new cases and two recoveries.

The person who died was a man in his 80s with underlying health conditions.

There have been 407 total cases in Lyon County, 50 of them currently active, with 350 recoveries and seven deaths.

The new cases are:

• A man in his 20’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A woman in her 20’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A man in his teens with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A woman in her 60’s with no connection to a previously reported case.

As of its most recent update at 6 p.m. Sept. 20, 173 total cases have been reported and 16 cases are active in the 89408 zip code, according to Carson City Health and Human Services and the Quad-County EOC. The breakdown of cases by zip code within the Quad-County region is available at https://gethealthycarsoncity.org/covid-19-cases-by-zip-code/.

There have now been 1,225 total cases, 1,078 recoveries and 16 deaths in the Quad-County region.