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

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3 years ago

May 16, 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 16, according to the ADH website, there were:

338,637 total cases of COVID-19 in Arkansas
- 264,847 confirmed cases
- 73,840 probable cases
330,722 recoveries
2,116 active cases
- 1,377 confirmed active cases
- 739 probable active cases
5,793 total deaths
- 4,596 deaths among confirmed cases
- 1,197 deaths among probable cases
166 currently hospitalized
- 77 in ICU
- 27 on ventilators
3,606,538 people total have been tested
- 8.8% positive PCR tests
- 14.8% positive antigen tests
3,254,543 people have tested negative

The counties with the highest new cases added as of Saturday, May 15:

Pulaski: 32
Benton: 23
Lonoke: 9

“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	3,182	18	3,060	104	22,592
Clay	1,771	14	1,707	50	18,973
Cleburne	1,987	10	1,901	75	23,507
Craighead	13,497	100	13,215	181	127,702
Crittenden	6,089	39	5,951	97	45,333
Cross	1,949	2	1,897	50	17,047
Greene	6,133	27	6,028	77	51,508
Independence	3,766	11	3,631	124	44,542
Jackson	3,226	6	3,181	38	29,350
Lawrence	2,122	8	2,071	43	16,663
Mississippi	5,864	29	5,727	108	43,754
Poinsett	3,172	10	3,085	77	29,457
Randolph	2,137	32	2,058	47	21,812
St. Francis	3,597	11	3,542	44	32,249
Sharp	1,609	12	1,551	46	18,561
Stone	992	4	958	30	12,611
White	8,039	64	7,855	118	56,030
Woodruff	651	6	632	13	8,862