COVID-19 UPDATE
As a service to our readers, The Sentinel-Record publishes updates released by the city of Hot Springs and the state of Arkansas.
The following stats were posted Friday on the Arkansas Department of Health website:
• 225,737 cumulative confirmed cases, up 1,494 from Thursday.
• 1,342.57 rolling seven-day average of new confirmed cases, down 92.29 from Thursday.
• 2,327,428 PCR test reports, up 11,893 from Thursday.
• 9.7% cumulative PCR infection rate, no change from Thursday.
• 332,250 vaccine doses received, up 1,500 from Thursday.
• 193,831 doses given, up
14,704 from Thursday.
• 55,645 cumulative probable cases, up 668 from Thursday.
• 19.5% cumulative antigen infection rate, no change from Thursday.
• 20,107 active confirmed and probable cases, down 511 from Thursday.
• 256,696 recoveries of confirmed and probable cases, up
2,620 from Thursday.
• 1,142 hospitalizations, down
18 from Thursday.
• 193 cases on a ventilator, down two from Thursday.
• 364 ICU admissions, down
11 from Thursday.
• 3,723 confirmed deaths, up
34 from Thursday.
• 826 probable deaths, up 19 from Thursday.
• 1,809 nursing home deaths, up 15 from Thursday.
• 6,639 cumulative confirmed cases in Garland County, up 26 from Thursday.
• 44.72 rolling seven-day average of new confirmed cases, down 13.99 from Thursday.
• 81,755 PCR and antigen test reports, up 366 from Thursday.
• 60,614 private lab reports, up 226 from Thursday.
• 21,141 public lab reports, up
140 from Thursday.
• 9.1% cumulative PCR infection rate, no change from Thursday.
• 535 active confirmed cases in Garland County, down 34 from Thursday.
• 5,945 recoveries of confirmed cases in Garland County, up 59 from Thursday.
• 1,190 cumulative probable cases in Garland County, up 18 from Thursday.
• 132 active probable cases in Garland County, no change from Thursday.
• 159 confirmed deaths, up one from Thursday.
• 34 probable deaths, up one from Thursday.
Garland County and statewide polymerase chain reaction-confirmed infections curves fell Friday to their lowest points since last month. The 26 new confirmed cases reported in the county Friday lowered its rolling seven-day average of new infections to its lowest point since Dec. 28. Friday’s 44.72 average was 60% lower than the Jan. 11 peak, as Friday’s reported confirmed cases replaced the
124 reported the previous Friday in the moving average.
Friday’s 1,342.57 statewide rolling seven-day average of new PCR-confirmed cases was 38% lower than the statewide Jan.
11 peak and the lowest average since Dec. 3. The 1,494 new confirmed cases reported Friday replaced the 2,140 reported the previous Friday in the statewide moving average. The statewide average has fallen 10 out of the last 11 days.
“Today’s report shows a decrease of nearly 1,000 new cases compared to the same day last week,” Gov. Asa Hutchinson, referring to the 3,124 new confirmed and probable cases reported Jan. 15 and the 2,162 reported Friday, said Friday in a news release. “There were also over 16,500 tests administered yesterday. If we can keep our new cases on the decline, then our deaths will reduce as well, and this is one goal we can all unite behind.”
The educational institution report the Health Department updated Thursday included 153 public school districts with five or more active confirmed and probable student and staff cases, down from the 158 in
Monday’s report.
Five Garland County school districts were listed in Thursday and Monday’s reports. Lake Hamilton led with 22 Thursday, down from the 23 reported Monday. Thursday’s report listed 20 active cases at Fountain Lake, up from the 18 reported Monday.
Sixteen active cases were listed for Lakeside in Thursday’s report, the same number the Health Department reported Monday. Eight were listed for Hot Springs Thursday, down from the nine reported Monday. Six were listed for Jessieville, down from the 10 reported Monday.
The Health Department reported 3,064 active cases in all of the state’s public school districts Thursday, up from the 3,029 reported Monday.