Arkansas

Daily Report: Arkansas Dept. of Health monitoring COVID-19

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3 years ago

May 8, 2021

By MDMH Staff

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Arkansas Department of Health is monitoring the spread of COVID-19 daily.

As of 9:45 a.m., Saturday, May 8, according to the ADH website, there were:

337,170 total cases of COVID-19 in Arkansas
- 263,933 confirmed cases
- 73,237 probable cases
329,179 recoveries
2,176 active cases
- 1,505 confirmed active cases
- 671 probable active cases
5,759 total deaths
- 4,574 deaths among confirmed cases
- 1,185 deaths among probable cases
175 currently hospitalized
- 76 in ICU
- 37 on ventilators
3,565,914 people total have been tested
- 8.8% positive PCR tests
- 15.1% positive antigen tests
3,215,504 people have tested negative

The counties with the highest new cases added as of Friday, May 7:

Benton: 37
Pulaski, Washington: 24
Faulkner: 17

“We recognize Arkansans’ concerns about this illness, and we are committed to keeping the public informed with as much information as we have about the virus, while also protecting the privacy of individual patients,” the ADH stated in a March 2, 2020 news release.

Region 8 counties reporting positive cases of COVID-19 include:

County	Total	Active	Recovered	Deaths	Negatives
Baxter	3,169	28	3,037	104	22,341
Clay	1,762	17	1,695	50	18,825
Cleburne	1,979	10	1,894	74	23,348
Craighead	13,431	119	13,132	179	126,220
Crittenden	6,062	58	5,906	96	44,605
Cross	1,948	8	1,890	50	16,921
Greene	6,110	33	5,999	77	51,014
Independence	3,759	8	3,628	123	44,170
Jackson	3,222	7	3,176	38	27,701
Lawrence	2,116	22	2,051	43	16,328
Mississippi	5,852	43	5,702	107	42,299
Poinsett	3,165	12	3,076	77	28,960
Randolph	2,114	18	2,049	47	21,263
St. Francis	3,591	19	3,530	42	32,020
Sharp	1,598	13	1,539	46	18,365
Stone	990	5	955	30	12,484
White	7,988	60	7,808	118	55,658
Woodruff	647	2	632	13	8,829