Coronavirus Updates
Arkansas on Wednesday posted its smallest daily increase in coronavirus cases so far this year even as the number of people hospitalized with covid-19 in the s…
by Andy Davis March 24, 2022BEIJING -- Even as authorities lock down cities in China's worst outbreak in two years, they are looking for an exit from what has been a successful but onerou…
by The Associated Press March 21, 2022Arkansas' number of active coronavirus cases, representing people who have tested positive within the past 10 days, fell on Friday to its lowest level since Ma…
by Andy Davis March 19, 2022Arkansas' death toll from the coronavirus rose to almost 11,000 on Wednesday even as the number of covid-19 patients in the state's hospitals continued falling.
by Andy Davis March 17, 2022The number of Arkansas counties subject to a recommendation that residents wear masks in indoor public places fell from 16 to just two under the latest update …
by Andy Davis March 12, 2022The number of covid-19 patients in Arkansas hospitals fell below 300 for the first time in almost four months on Thursday -- almost two years after the state's…
by Andy Davis March 11, 2022With Arkansas' new coronavirus cases and number of hospitalized covid-19 patients continuing to decline from the levels they reached during a surge of infectio…
by Andy Davis March 10, 2022BOSTON (AP) -- Major school districts around the country are allowing students into classrooms without masks for the first time in nearly two years, eliminatin…
by The Associated Press March 8, 2022BANGKOK -- The official global death toll from COVID-19 is on the verge of eclipsing 6 million -- underscoring that the pandemic, now entering its third year, …
by The Associated Press March 6, 2022The decline in the numbers of covid-19 patients in hospitals, in intensive care and on ventilators in Arkansas stalled on Friday, with the number hospitalized …
by Andy Davis March 5, 2022Arkansas' death toll from the coronavirus rose Thursday by 50 -- the second-highest one-day increase in more than a year -- as the number of patients hospitali…
by Andy Davis March 4, 2022Arkansas' death toll from the coronavirus rose by 32 on Wednesday as the state's new cases and number of hospitalized patients continued to decline.
by Andy Davis March 3, 2022HONG KONG -- For two years, Hong Kong successfully insulated most of its residents from COVID-19 and often went months without a single locally spread case. Th…
by The Associated Press February 28, 2022People in more than half the counties in the United States, including more than 40% of those in Arkansas, no longer need to wear masks in public to prevent the…
by Andy Davis February 26, 2022A day after falling below 1,000 for the first time in more than a month, the number of covid-19 patients in Arkansas hospitals kept plummeting on Friday as the…
by Andy Davis February 20, 2022