Esmeralda County Commissioner Tim Hipp said the positive case is believed to be a poll worker who was working last week during the election.
“In response to that, we have shut down the courthouse. And the people that were working with the volunteers with the election are all going to get tested. So we’re just kind of waiting to see what the results are,” Hipp said.
Esmeralda County, whose biggest town is Goldfield, pop. 268, lies isolated in the Mojave Desert three hours north of Las Vegas. At the turn of the last century, it was the center of a gold mining boom and was Nevada’s biggest town.
“I am not experiencing any COVID-19 symptoms and I have returned to my residence to begin the quarantine process,” Sisolak told reporters during a call Friday afternoon. “It’s nearly impossible to pinpoint where I contracted the virus.”
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