Coronavirus Updates
The 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, 2022Average daily COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are continuing to fall in the U.S., an indicator that the omicron variant's hold is weakening across the coun…
by The Associated Press February 20, 2022Dropping for the 17th day in a row, the number of people hospitalized with covid-19 in Arkansas fell below 1,000 Thursday for the first time in more than a mon…
by Andy Davis February 18, 2022Arkansas' death toll from the coronavirus rose Wednesday by 49 -- the largest single-day increase in more than a year -- even as the state's new cases and numb…
by Andy Davis February 17, 2022Arkansas posted a slight uptick in new coronavirus cases Friday even as the number of people hospitalized in the state with the virus fell for the 11th day in …
by Andy Davis February 12, 2022Arkansas' cumulative count of coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic topped 800,000 Wednesday even as its numbers of hospitalized covid-19 patients …
by Andy Davis February 10, 2022