The drop in the number of new coronavirus cases in Arkansas continued Friday, as the number of other people hospitalized in the state with the virus declined for a straight day.
The number of COVID-19 deaths in the state, as recorded by the Ministry of Health, rose to six, to 11,983.
Health Department spokeswoman Danyelle McNeill, all of the deaths reported Friday occurred more than a month earlier.
One of the deaths in February, one in March, 3 in July and one in early August, he said.
The state’s number of cases rose Friday to 660, down from 185 on Thursday and 488 since last Friday.
This is the smallest daily accumulation in instances on a Friday since May 27 and the first on a Friday since August 19 below 1,000.
“It’s hard to know why today’s cases are small,” McNeill said in an email.
“However, we are seeing instances continue to decline, so we are following that trend. “
Down for the third day in a row, the average increase in the number of instances in the state during a continuous seven-day era fell to 680, its lowest point since June 16.
With recoveries surpassing new instances, the number of instances in the state considered active fell from 360 to 8857, the first time it has been less than 9,000 since June 22.
After dropping nine on Thursday, the number of COVID-19 patients in state hospitals fell from 12 on Friday to 265, which remains above the two-month low of 258 reached on Monday.
Pulaski County had the highest number of new cases, 78, on Friday, followed by Benton County with 45, Saline County with 37 and Washington County with 34.
The cumulative number of states since March 2020 has amounted to 945,449.
Falling for the time being day in a row, the number of patients inflamed with the virus in the state who were in intensive care dropped from five to 44.
The number of fans, which he replaced on Thursday, increased on Friday through two, to 18.
At its hospitals in Little Rock and Springdale, Arkansas Children’s had 14 COVID-19 patients on Friday, up from thirteen on Thursday and 19 last Friday, spokeswoman Hilary DeMillo said.
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Also on Friday, McNeill said Arkansas ordered and won this week another 21,600 doses of the Pfizer vaccine that was updated to target the original strain of the coronavirus, as well as two strains of the omicron variant that are now guilty of peak infections.
These doses are in addition to Pfizer’s 27,000 doses and 21,500 doses of the state-ordered Moderna vaccine that were delivered last week and the 20,100 doses of Pfizer that arrived earlier this week.
No additional doses of the Moderna vaccine are expected until next week, McNeill said.
On August 31, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the use of any of the vaccines as a booster dose for others who gained their last booster or the number one dose in the series at least two months earlier.
Pfizer’s vaccine has been legal for others over the age of 12. Moderna is allowed for other people over the age of 18.
They said they administered the reinforcements to 16,297 Arkansans on Friday, up from 8,513 on Tuesday, McNeill said.