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

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

As of 4:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 24, according to the ADH website, there were:

1,365 new cases
491,221 total cases of COVID-19 in Arkansas
13,245 active cases (-256)
13 new deaths
7,561 total deaths
894 currently hospitalized (-62)
231 on ventilators (-23)
470,285 recoveries
4,702 vaccination doses administered
297,702 partially immunized (-994)
1,321,678 fully immunized (+2,674)
4,908,123 people total have been tested
4,394,667 people have tested negative

The counties with the highest new cases added as of Wednesday, Sept. 22:

Faulkner: 98
Craighead: 90
Pulaski: 74

“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
Baxter	5,633	88	5,376	168
Clay	2,568	110	2,400	58
Cleburne	3,497	130	3,276	88
Craighead	20,507	744	19,534	228
Crittenden	8,405	300	7,985	117
Cross	2,781	84	2,638	59
Greene	9,470	394	8,966	109
Independence	5,856	270	5,434	152
Jackson	3,990	84	3,863	42
Lawrence	3,104	111	2,943	50
Mississippi	7,835	314	7,394	126
Poinsett	4,681	166	4,419	96
Randolph	3,076	164	2,861	51
St. Francis	4,600	127	4,417	56
Sharp	2,646	145	2,438	62
Stone	1,582	60	1,483	39
White	12,632	318	12,131	178
Woodruff	1,059	60	978	21

Nursing Homes: For the latest report on COVID-19 cases among Arkansas nursing home residents and staff, 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.

It can also be viewed here.

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.

ADH COVID-19 Dashboard

For the latest information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on COVID-19, click here.

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