It will be followed by a full-capacity show from Garth Brooks next weekend. Shows and fireworks are scheduled for the July 4 weekend, and the new 65,000-seat Allegiant Stadium where the NFL's relocated Raiders will kick off their season this fall was set to host its first major concert Saturday, by electronic dance music star Illenium. Visitor numbers, while not at their pre-pandemic highs, have grown by double digits four months in a row. Las Vegas fully reopened and lifted restrictions on most businesses June 1, though many casino-resorts had already returned to 100 per cen capacity before that with approval from state regulators. Tyler Williams, a 22-year-old from Eugene, Oregon, said it didn't feel as if there was a pandemic anymore because "people are everywhere." He said he had seen hardly anyone with a mask apart from a few foreign tourists and felt no need to wear one himself, because he is vaccinated. Lee said she is vaccinated and felt safe in Las Vegas because she read about the casinos' efforts to get their workers and their families vaccinated.
"It seems like everything is opening back up, getting back to normal," Teresa Lee, a 47-year-old tourist from Nashville, Tennessee, said Thursday as she stood on the Strip, looking out over the fountains in front of the Bellagio casino. Inside the casinos, guests are not required to wear masks if they are fully vaccinated, but employees do not appear to be asking anyone for proof. Still, in a place where the economy runs on crowds and uninhibited behaviour, a return to pandemic-related restrictions and mask requirements seems to be off the table. Newsletter sign-up: Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inboxīut that progress is threatened: Nevada this week saw the highest rate of new COVID-19 cases in the country, hospitalizations are on the rise again, and the highly contagious delta variant has become the most prevalent form of the virus in the state, adding urgency to the campaign to get more people vaccinated.
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