LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – New figures from the Arkansas Division of Well being launched Wednesday confirmed a pointy enhance within the variety of new COVID-19 deaths reported even because the variety of hospitalizations within the state continues to fall.
The ADH reported 49 deaths within the newest knowledge, pushing the state’s pandemic whole to 10,190. That enhance is the most important one-day soar reported January 27, 2021, outdoors of days well being officers stated they have been reporting knowledge corrections.
Well being officers reported 1,124 new instances of the virus, elevating the state’s whole to 810,520. Knowledge additionally exhibits that lively instances dropped by 1,586, bringing the present quantity to 12,965.
The ADH knowledge additionally confirmed that the variety of sufferers in hospitals across the state who’re optimistic for COVID-19 dropped by 46, bringing the present quantity to 1,004. The variety of sufferers in ICU care dropped by 10 to 295, whereas the variety of sufferers on ventilators fell by two to 155.
Well being officers reported that 2,889 vaccine doses have been administered in Arkansas over the previous 24 hours. There are at the moment 1,559,894 Arkansans absolutely immunized and one other 370,793 partially immunized.
