LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - There were 58 fewer people hospitalized in Arkansas on Saturday as the number of hospitalizations continues a recent decline, according to the Arkansas Department of Health.
There were 750 hospitalizations, down from 808 on Friday, while the number of reported cases rose by 1,341 and there were 11 more deaths due to COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, according to the health department.
Overall, the number of both deaths and cases have also declined during the past two weeks, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
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The seven-day rolling average of deaths in the state has dropped from 40.86 per day on Jan. 22 to 31.29 and the average number of new cases has fallen from 1,963.86 per day to 1,737.14 during the same time period, the Johns Hopkins data showed.
There have been 306,064 total virus cases and 5,061 COVID-19 deaths since the pandemic began in March, according to the health department.
The Johns Hopkins data also reflects a drop in the seven-day rolling average of the positivity rate, from 17.44% to 12.1% during the same time period.
Arkansas had the sixth most new cases per capita in the nation with 774.46, according to the Johns Hopkins data.
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