Arkansas’ new coronavirus case numbers continued falling Friday from the heights they reached during a surge driven by the omicron variant, while the number of people hospitalized with the virus in the state dropped for the second day in a row.
After reaching an all-time high of 1,819 Wednesday, then falling by 31 Thursday, the number hospitalized fell Friday by 68, to 1,720.
The state’s count of cases rose by 5,660, which was smaller by 356 than the increase a day earlier and less than half the size of the one the previous Friday.
Arkansas’ death toll from the virus, as tracked by the Department of Health, rose by 20, to 9,616.