Las Vegas Opening Back Up Following Coronavirus Closure

By Joey Tack on June 4, 2020

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After nearly 12 weeks of closure, the casinos on the Las Vegas strip are opening up, some as early as today at 12:01am. According to our partners at KCRA3:

Hotel-casinos in suburban Las Vegas were the first to open at 12:01 a.m., to be followed later in the morning by a restart of the iconic Bellagio fountain and reopenings of several resorts on the Las Vegas Strip.

Wynn Resorts pushed back its planned opening to daylight hours in a nod to ongoing nighttime protests over George Floyd’s death in Minnesota. Floyd, a black man, died after a white officer pressed his knee into his neck.