Arkansas

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

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4 years ago

April 12, 2021

By MDMH Staff

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

As of 6 p.m., Monday, April 12, according to the ADH website, there were:

332,222 total cases of COVID-19 in Arkansas
- 260,579 confirmed cases
- 71,643 probable cases
324,868 recoveries
1,640 active cases
- 1,121 confirmed active cases
- 519 probable active cases
5,665 total deaths
- 4,514 deaths among confirmed cases
- 1,151 deaths among probable cases
156 currently hospitalized
- 51 in ICU
- 17 on ventilators
3,442,968 people total have been tested
- 9% positive PCR tests
- 15.7% positive antigen tests
3,097,699 people have tested negative

The counties with the highest new cases added as of Monday, April 12:

Benton: 18
Washington: 11
Pulaski: 10

“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	3,103	36	2,965	102	21,031
Clay	1,728	5	1,673	50	18,118
Cleburne	1,950	4	1,872	73	22,511
Craighead	13,158	75	12,905	177	119,694
Crittenden	5,917	42	5,777	96	42,303
Cross	1,933	13	1,871	49	16,462
Greene	6,044	35	5,933	75	48,782
Independence	3,730	14	3,595	121	41,487
Jackson	3,210	2	3,169	38	27,082
Lawrence	2,075	6	2,026	43	15,114
Mississippi	5,777	25	5,646	106	40,835
Poinsett	3,126	11	3,037	76	27,405
Randolph	2,070	11	2,012	47	20,032
St. Francis	3,543	28	3,478	41	30,958
Sharp	1,558	7	1,506	45	17,402
Stone	983	0	953	30	12,068
White	7,870	62	7,688	118	53,349
Woodruff	641	8	621	12	8,474