MGM & Wynn Resorts Close Down in Las Vegas

The lights are going out over Las Vegas starting this week as both MGM Resorts and Wynn Resorts announced it is closing their hotels and casinos until the1st May at the earliest.

The shutdown comes as the US is gripped by the killer Coronavirus (COVID-19), Jim Murren the CEO and Chairman of MGM said to the Las Vegas Journal, ‘It is now apparent that this is a public health crisis that requires major collective action if we are to slow its progression,.”

‘We will plan to reopen our resorts as soon as it (is) safe to do so and we will continue to support our employees, guests and communities in every way that we can during this period of closure.’ He said.

Employees will receive an extra two weeks pay before being laid off and will have their health care covered till the end of June.

So far in Nevada there has been a reported 16 cases as of 15^th March however the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has stressed this is only the beginning of the spread.