KARK:
New data from the Arkansas Department of Health shows a new record high in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 even as active cases saw a second day of declines.
The ADH data reported 1,817 patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19, an increase of 184 since Sunday. The figures also showed 215 patients currently on ventilators, 19 more than the previous day.
The number of active cases in the state fell by 7,483 to 93,314 in the past 24 hours. The figures show there have now been 741,881 total cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began, with new cases increasing by 3,243 since the previous reporting Sunday.