LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — COVID-19 continues to rage through Arkansas as new day-over-day cases topped 2,000 for the first time since February.
State health officials reported 2,015 new cases Saturday of the highly contagious Delta variant sweeps across the state.
Four more COVID-19 cases required hospitalization, and seven more deaths were reported.
On Sunday, the ADH said there were just over 1,000 new cases in the state along with 44 new hospitalizations and six new deaths.
Although the Arkansas vaccination rate has been among the nation’s lowest, State Epidemiologist Jennifer Dillaha tells the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that 32,466 first doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered last week, the most since late April.
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