Nevada’s public universities and colleges are easing grading and financial requirements because of systemwide school closures over COVID-19.

UNLV Medicine, which has conducted tests on more than 2,000 people for coronavirus, received an additional 250 test kits late Monday, allowing curbside testing to continue through Thursday.

UNLV Medicine acquires more COVID-19 test kits.

The clinical arm of the University of Nevada Las Vegas’s School of Medicine has received another shipment of COVID-19 testing kits, extending the time screenings can be administered.

Tests for COVID-19 are hard to come by. Now it will be even tougher to get results in the valley.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas' Medicine department has received 250 additional coronavirus tests kits, according to a spokesperson Monday night.

Nevada’s northern and southern labs are out of coronavirus testing swabs, but officials expect to get more kits this week, including rapid-result test kits, Gov. Steve Sisolak said Monday.

Nevada’s northern and southern labs are out of coronavirus testing swabs, but officials expect to get more kits this week, including rapid-result test kits, Gov. Steve Sisolak said Monday.

The question of whether the general public should wear masks when heading outside has lingered for weeks as health officials across the country have scrambled to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus — a pandemic that worsened through the month of March and with no end yet in sight.