County’s active cases continue to decline

The nursing home report the Arkansas Department of Health updated Monday listed 17 new resident cases in the past 14 days at Village Springs Health and Rehabilitation, down from the 22 reported the previous Monday.

The Highway 7 north location was one of five long-term facilities in the state with 15 or more new resident cases reported in the last two weeks. Seventeen active resident cases were reported at Village Springs. Somerset Senior Living at Canyon Springs was the other Garland County facility listed in Monday’s update. Five new resident cases have been reported at the Park Avenue location in the past two weeks.

Nursing home deaths have accounted for almost 30% of the more than 7,600 COVID-19 deaths reported in the state since the start of the pandemic. Monday’s report listed 12 resident deaths at Village Springs and five at Somerset Senior Living.

The number of active cases reported Monday in Garland County fell to its lowest point in more than two months. Monday’s active cases were 76% lower than the Aug. 14 peak of 1,111. As a service to our readers, The Sentinel-Record publishes updates released by the city of Hot Springs and the state of Arkansas.

The Arkansas Department of Health is no longer reporting confirmed and probable cases separately. The following stats were posted Monday on the Health Department’s website:

• 493,120 cumulative cases, up 470 from Sunday.

• 1,095.43 rolling seven-day average of new cases, up 10.57 from Sunday.

• 3,887,193 PCR test reports, up 2,421 from Sunday.

• 9.4% cumulative PCR infection rate, no change from Sunday.

• 11,505 active cases, down 989 from Sunday.

• 3,110 active juvenile cases, down 281 from Sunday.

• 473,855 recoveries, down 1,419 from Sunday.

• 3,750,980 vaccine doses given, no change from Sunday.

• 2,880,209 doses given, up 2,131 from Sunday.

• 835 hospitalizations, down 26 from Sunday.

• 234 cases on ventilators, up two from Sunday.

• 377 ICU patients, down 17 from Sunday.

• 7,630 deaths, up 40 from Sunday.

• 2,201 nursing home deaths, up five from Sunday.

• 15,539 cumulative cases in Garland County, up 15 from Sunday.

• 26.14 rolling seven-day average of new cases, down 3.43 from Sunday.

• 153,512 PCR and antigen test reports, up 90 from Sunday.

• 10.3% cumulative PCR infection rate, no change from Sunday.

• 268 active cases in Garland County, down 10 from Sunday.

• 14,903 recoveries in Garland County, up 25 from Sunday.

• 368 deaths, no change from Sunday.