Arkansas on Tuesday posted its largest single-day drop in the number of people hospitalized in the state with covid-19 as the state’s new case numbers also continued to decline.
The number hospitalized fell by 118, to 1,359, taking the total below its previous peaks of 1,459 last summer and 1,371 in January 2021.
The state’s death toll from the virus, as tracked by the Department of Health, rose by 28, to 9,895.