Posted on 03/16/2020 11:34:38 AM PDT by dennisw
Casino operations are set to close Monday, followed by MGM Resorts International's hotel operations The company with properties including the Bellagio, MGM Grand and Mandalay Bay said on Sunday that it will not take reservations prior to May 1
The announcement came same day Wynn Resorts said in a statement that the two-week closure of Wynn Las Vegas and Encore would start March 17 at 6pm As of Saturday, health officials have announced 21 cases of coronavirus in Nevada
MGM Resorts International announced on Sunday that it will be halting the operations of all of its Las Vegas hotels and casinos as the coronavirus continues its spread in Nevada.
It means some of the most well-known hotels, casinos and mega resorts in the city that employ tens of thousands of workers, such as The Bellagio, the MGM Grand and Mandalay Bay, will close their doors.
The company said they will cease casino operations on Monday followed by the hotel operations on Tuesday.
The Mirage, Luxor, New York-New York, Excalibur and Park MG will also shut, MGM confirmed.
Wynn Resorts also said in a statement on the same day that Wynn Las Vegas and Encore would close for two weeks.
The virtual shutdown of the multi-billion-dollar industry is a hammer blow for the city's tourism and entertainment sectors as hotel occupancy rates have already begun to nosedive.
Several employees at MGM Resorts International hotel-casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, including at least one at Luxor, tested positive in a presumptive test for COVID-19 over the weekend.
On Friday it emerged two employees, one at the Luxor and another at the Wet Republic pool, tested positive.
In a statement, MGM said they will not be taking any reservations prior to May 1.
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I wouldn’t be surprised that Las Vegas will become a ghost town by the end of March as every casino shuts down for safety reasons.
They are shutting down because the customers are not there. No one is going to Las Vegas for fun or to gamble. Not for a while.
Ugg. The Vegas economy just got body slammed.
May favorite taco joint in the world is in Las Vegas. so sad!
Safety or no safety... The customers are just not there in Las Vegas. They are sitting at home fidgeting.
If Las Vegas goes bankrupt the Mormons can buy the large casinos and convert them into mega-churches and bunk space for Mormon Missionaries in between gigs in shthole countries..
Paging Mr. Ocean...
Unemployment rate will skyrocket. Liberal media will blame Trump.
That..is a hell of a lot of workers.
Vegas cant suffer to much of that for obvious reasons.
Branson, Silverdollar City, Sea World, Disney, Cedar Point, Dolly World. ....how do you stop it? Seems like a insane runaway train.
Now all restaurants and deli's closing, then the curfew, then we got a looting problem.
They're trying to make President Trump panic.
hopefully mass exodus of illegals headin out of Vegas soon...
“The customers are just not there in Las Vegas. They are sitting at home fidgeting.”
I had concert tickets, but they “postponed.”
Am I supposed to go anyway?
They’re trying to make President Trump panic.
Situations like this, so out of the norm, test the mettle of a leader. I believe our President will do what he thinks is the best thing for our country. I have no idea how things will look this fall, but can you imagine anyone thinking that Joe Biden would have handled things as well as Trump has? Instead of closing borders, Biden has said he’d open up wide.
The whole country's economy is getting body slammed. It's going to get really ugly.
I agree completely. I think the left/deep state/MSM goal here is to create such a flying excrement-storm of confusion and hysteria that President Trump missteps, at which point they'll turn up the volume so the screaming can be heard on the moon.
So far, all the missteps seem to be being made by Democrat governors as they do what they can to crash the economies of their states.
Don’t buy a lot of real estate in Vegas.
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