Arkansas

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

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3 years ago

May 15, 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., Saturday, May 15, according to the ADH website, there were:

338,485 total cases of COVID-19 in Arkansas
- 264,720 confirmed cases
- 73,765 probable cases
330,570 recoveries
2,069 active cases
- 1,345 confirmed active cases
- 724 probable active cases
5,790 total deaths
- 4,593 deaths among confirmed cases
- 1,197 deaths among probable cases
172 currently hospitalized
- 83 in ICU
- 31 on ventilators
3,601,440 people total have been tested
- 8.8% positive PCR tests
- 14.8% positive antigen tests
3,249,655 people have tested negative

The counties with the highest new cases added as of Friday, May 14:

Benton: 36
Pulaski: 35
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	3,181	20	3,057	104	22,572
Clay	1,772	16	1,706	50	18,956
Cleburne	1,986	9	1,901	75	23,449
Craighead	13,491	101	13,208	181	127,066
Crittenden	6,086	42	5,945	97	45,137
Cross	1,949	2	1,897	50	17,037
Greene	6,130	24	6,028	77	51,466
Independence	3,765	10	3,631	124	44,467
Jackson	3,225	6	3,180	38	29,349
Lawrence	2,122	9	2,070	43	16,639
Mississippi	5,864	34	5,722	108	43,515
Poinsett	3,171	10	3,084	77	29,429
Randolph	2,132	27	2,058	47	21,783
St. Francis	3,596	10	3,543	43	32,179
Sharp	1,607	11	1,550	46	18,546
Stone	992	4	958	30	12,601
White	8,028	58	7,850	118	55,971
Woodruff	649	4	632	13	8,859