The mayor of Las Vegas said that the ongoing lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak is 'total insanity'.

Carolyn Goodman on Wednesday called on Nevada's Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak, to lift the closures imposed on nonessential businesses.

'This shutdown has become one of total insanity in my opinion, for there is no backup of data as to why we are shut down from the start,' Goodman told a City Council meeting on Wednesday.

'No plan in place how to move through the shutdown or how even to come out of it.'

The mayor, who self-identifies as a political independent, said she spoke with experts who told her that the coronavirus or something similar will 'be part of what we work through going forward.'

'We cannot keep our heads in the sand and think it's going to go away,' she said.

'We're adults with brains who can know what to do to wash our hands, to take all precautions not to spread this disease.'