After surpassing double digits over the past two days, the number of other people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Arkansas partially dropped Thursday as the number of active or recently infectious cases in the state continued to decline.
The number of deaths from the virus in the state, as tracked through the Ministry of Health, rose from seven to 11,977.
Health Department spokeswoman Danyelle McNeill, all of the deaths reported Thursday occurred more than a month ago.
One of the deaths in January, one in February, one in March, one in April, one in May, one in June and one in July, he said.
After hitting a two-month low of 258 on Monday and then topping a total of 28 over the next two days, the number of COVID-19 patients in Arkansas hospitals dropped Thursday to 277.
The state’s case count rose to 845, down 174 from Wednesday and 298 since last Thursday.
Falling for a consecutive day, the state’s average increase in the number of instances over a continuous seven-day period fell to 750, from an average of 797 per day last week.
With recoveries surpassing new instances, the number of active instances in the state fell from 379 to 9217, its lowest point since June 22.
“We are excited to see it continue to decline,” McNeill said in an email.
She said it was difficult to wait how long the decline would continue.
As the state’s active instances continue to decline, fitness officials expect the number of hospitalizations to also trend downward, he said.
Pulaski County recorded the highest number of new cases, 106, on Thursday, followed by Washington County with 57 and Craighead County with 43.
The cumulative number of states since March 2020 has risen to 944,789.
After converting the past two days, the number of patients inflamed with the state virus who were in intensive care dropped from six to 49 on Thursday.
The number of fans, which dropped to two on Wednesday, remained on Thursday.
At its hospitals in Little Rock and Springdale, Arkansas Children’s had thirteen COVID-19 patients on Thursday, up from 14 on Wednesday and 17 on Thursday, spokeswoman Hilary DeMillo said.
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Despite the downward trend in the state’s total number of new cases, the number of Arkansas counties where the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is located in the state’ number of new cases. U. S. citizens recommend that other people wear masks in enclosed public places increased from seven to 22 on Thursday, after falling a week. earlier.
The advice applies to counties where the “covid-19 network level,” based on the weekly number of new cases, covid-19 hospital admissions, and the percentage of hospital beds occupied by covid-19 patients, is “high. “
According to the most recent weekly update of a CDC map, the point ranges from “low” or “medium” to maximum in 10 Arkansas counties: Ashley, Bradley, Clay, Cpointand, Desha, Drew, Jefferson, Lonoke, Perry and Scott.
Meanwhile, the point has risen from top to middle in Grant and Prairie counties and from top to bottom in Johnson County.
Overall, the number of counties with a covid-19 low point decreased from 10 to 28, while the number with a higher average point from three to 25.
Among the state’s most populous counties, the point remained at average in Pulaski and Saline counties, low in Benton and Washington counties, and high in Faulkner and Craighead counties.
In Sebastian County, the point is low to medium.
In counties with an average COVID-19 point, cdc recommends that other people who are immunocompromised or at increased risk for severe COVID-19 contact their health care providers about whether to wear a mask or take other precautions.
According to the CDC, citizens of those counties also deserve to wear a mask around others at higher risk of serious illness.
In counties with low levels of COVID-19, the CDC has no advice on whether other people wear masks.