The regulatory agency released an updated health and safety policy, which gaming licensees must abide by, late last month. The Gaming Control Board is requiring companies to submit reopening plans that incorporate some baseline health and safety measures. But it hasn’t been done without careful deliberation on how to make casino experiences - defined by packed nightclubs and friends clustered around craps tables - into ones less likely to propagate the spread of COVID-19. Throwing the doors open for tourists could go a long way to address the economic pain of the coronavirus pandemic. The unprecedented, more than two-month shutdown of gaming has driven an astronomical increase in joblessness, with Nevada’s unemployment rate now the highest in the nation and the Las Vegas area alone notching a rate of more than 33 percent. Nevada cleared a major milestone in its reopening plan on June 4, which is the date Gov.
