Arkansas

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

Published

3 years ago

May 9, 2021

By MDMH Staff

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

As of 9:30 a.m., Sunday, May 9, according to the ADH website, there were:

337,415 total cases of COVID-19 in Arkansas
- 264,080 confirmed cases
- 73,335 probable cases
329,333 recoveries
2,266 active cases
- 1,554 confirmed active cases
- 712 probable active cases
5,760 total deaths
- 4,575 deaths among confirmed cases
- 1,185 deaths among probable cases
163 currently hospitalized
- 74 in ICU
- 38 on ventilators
3,568,921 people total have been tested
- 8.8% positive PCR tests
- 15.1% positive antigen tests
3,219,255 people have tested negative

The counties with the highest new cases added as of Saturday, May 8:

Benton: 36
Pulaski: 30
Washington: 22

“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	3,177	33	3,040	104	22,383
Clay	1,763	17	1,696	50	18,846
Cleburne	1,979	10	1,894	74	23,373
Craighead	13,442	123	13,139	179	126,323
Crittenden	6,063	55	5,910	96	44,676
Cross	1,948	7	1,891	50	16,936
Greene	6,115	33	6,004	77	51,055
Independence	3,759	8	3,628	123	44,219
Jackson	3,223	7	3,177	38	27,712
Lawrence	2,119	23	2,053	43	16,356
Mississippi	5,853	43	5,703	107	42,393
Poinsett	3,166	13	3,076	77	28,994
Randolph	2,116	19	2,050	47	21,288
St. Francis	3,591	19	3,530	42	32,050
Sharp	1,600	13	1,541	46	18,379
Stone	990	5	955	30	12,499
White	7,998	66	7,812	118	55,689
Woodruff	648	3	632	13	8,835