El Dorado News-Times

COVID-19 Cases In the COmmunIty

- Compiled by News-Times staff

Below are the number of COVID-19 cases, active cases, and deaths recorded on Saturday, August 21, 2021 in Union County, Arkansas, the United States and the world. Additional­ly, local and state testing, recovery, hospitaliz­ation and vaccine informatio­n is provided.

The data was gathered from the Arkansas Department of Health for Union County and Arkansas, and from Johns Hopkins University for the U.S. and world.

Union County

4,682 cases (+22)

169 active cases (+11)

4,393 recoveries (+11)

118 deaths (+0)

39,001 tests performed

34,319 negative test results

9.7% seven-day positivity rate

22,561 vaccine doses administer­ed (+40) 30.9% county population fully immunized 10.1% county population partially immunized In the Southwest hospital region of the state, where Union County sits, 241 people were hospitaliz­ed due to COVID-19 Saturday, including 84 in intensive care units and 59 on ventilator support. Arkansas

434,027 cases (+2,520)

25,721 active cases (+743)

401,547 recoveries (+1,746)

6,645 deaths (+31)

4,393,158 tests performed

3,940,680 negative test results

13.9% seven-day positivity rate

1,362 hospitaliz­ed; 537 in ICUs; 345 on ventilator support

3,254,980 vaccine doses received 2,581,321 vaccine doses administer­ed (+15,963) 1,158,725 Arkansans fully immunized (+9,268) 352,872 Arkansans partially immunized

United States

37,635,311 cases

628,000 deaths

World

211,198,467 cases

4,420,637 deaths

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