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

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT) - The Arkansas Department of Health is monitoring the spread of COVID-19 weekly.

As of Wednesday, Feb. 8, according to the ADH website, in the last 7 days there were:

The counties with the most new cases in the last 7 days:

Region 8 counties reporting positive cases of COVID-19 include:

County	Total	Active	Recovered	Deaths
Baxter	10,586	63	10,238	282
Clay	5,102	48	4,952	100
Cleburne	7,999	19	7,830	145
Craighead	46,877	323	46,166	383
Crittenden	16,625	43	16,335	244
Cross	5,709	27	5,578	103
Greene	19,548	142	19,206	197
Independence	12,705	34	12,440	230
Jackson	7,204	18	7,110	75
Lawrence	6,462	46	6,327	89
Mississippi	16,286	81	15,970	233
Poinsett	10,000	53	9,808	139
Randolph	6,396	36	6,252	106
St. Francis	8,523	20	8,396	107
Sharp	5,687	18	5,543	121
Stone	3,683	28	3,574	80
White	26,950	100	26,505	336
Woodruff	2,261	2	2,226	33

Nursing Homes: The ADH last updated the COVID-19 cases in Arkansas nursing homes on May 23, 2022. To view that report, click here.

The ADH has released an interactive map of COVID-19′s spread throughout the state, including the number of cases, recoveries, and deaths by county.

For a national county-by-county interactive map, based on per capita COVID-19 cases, go here: https://bit.ly/COVIDpercapita »

For questions concerning the coronavirus, the ADH has established a call center staffed by health care providers.

Between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., those with urgent and non-urgent questions should call 1-800-803-7847.

After 4:30 p.m., urgent calls needing an immediate response should call 501-661-2136.

March 11, 2020: Gov. Asa Hutchinson announces the first “presumptive case” of coronavirus in the state.
March 19, 2020: Craighead County records its first case of COVID-19.
March 24, 2020: First death reported in Arkansas
April 9, 2020: Jonesboro orders emergency COVID-19 curfew
April 15, 2020: First COVID-19 death reported in Craighead County