LITTLE ROCK – Governor Asa Hutchinson announced record antigen testing in Friday’s COVID-19 update.
In the daily update, the Arkansas Department of Health reported 724 new cases; 5,767 active cases; 381 hospitalized, which is down eight from Thursday; and 77 individuals on ventilators, an increase of five from Thursday. The report notes a total of 72,338 cases, with 65,542 recoveries.
Governor Asa Hutchinson says, “Today we set a record for our antigen COVID-19 testing in Arkansas. We had over 11,000 tests with both PCR tests and antigen tests. Our cases were down from yesterday at 724, but we want this to go down more. Five hundred seventy-eight of the tests were community, and 146 were in corrections…”
Here are Friday’s COVID-19 statewide numbers:
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