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

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:

1. Benton: 36
2. Pulaski: 30
3. 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: