KARK:
The number of reported active cases of COVID-19 reached their highest in nearly a year on Sunday as they passed the 26,000 mark. Hospitalizations also continued to climb in the state, reflecting last year’s post-holiday surge.
The Arkansas Department of Health reported 1,421 new active cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, brining the state’s current active case count to 26,577. That’s the highest since Jan. 10, 2021, and the fourth-highest number reported since Jan. 1, 2021. On January 10, 2021, the ADH reported 27,492 cases of COVID-19.
The number of people in hospitals with COVID-19 went up as well. There were 38 more COVID-19 positive patients in Arkansas hospitals on Sunday, bringing the state’s total to 683. Despite the high number of active cases, though, the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 are less than half they were when the state experienced similar active case numbers with the previous waves of the Alpha and Delta variants.