Energetic covid-19 instances in Arkansas rose for the fourth day in a row on Saturday, in line with information from the state Division of Well being.
The rise of 35 energetic instances was lower than half of Friday’s spike within the variety of Arkansans who’ve just lately examined optimistic and are presumably nonetheless infectious.
The state logged a internet 176 energetic instances within the week from April 16 to 23, in line with the information.
Saturday additionally noticed 82 new reported instances, bringing the state’s whole to 834,946 since March 2020. There have been 746 new instances since April 16.
Pulaski County had probably the most new instances within the state on Saturday with 16. Craighead County had 9 instances, Washington County had seven instances and all different counties had 4 or fewer, together with 45 that had no new instances.
Not one of the state’s 75 counties are below a advice that folks put on masks indoors, in line with the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention’s map of “covid-19 neighborhood ranges.”
9 Central Arkansas counties are listed as “medium” transmission: Pulaski, Benton, Grant, Lonoke, Prairie, Faulkner, Perry, Conway and Van Buren.
The Well being Division’s covid-19 information portal didn’t present any modifications in hospital affected person information from Friday to Saturday. Hospitals haven’t been required to report affected person information to the Well being Division on weekends since mid-March.
On Friday, 50 Arkansans have been hospitalized with covid-19, 22 have been in intensive care and 13 have been on ventilators.
The web site additionally didn’t report any new deaths of covid-19 Saturday, preserving the state’s whole at 11,369.
The division reported 3,628 covid-19 vaccines given Saturday, 376 greater than April 16. The information confirmed that 13.5% of Saturday’s photographs have been booster photographs, and 564,640 Arkansans have now acquired boosters.
Well being Division information exhibits that 1,586,120 Arkansans 5 and older are absolutely vaccinated in opposition to covid-19 as of Saturday.