400,000th Arkansan contracts covid-19 as state adds 3,037 new cases
Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Arkansas' cumulative count of coronavirus cases since March 2020 topped 400,000 on Friday as more than 3,000 new cases were added for the first time in a single day since January.
The state's count of cases since the start of the pandemic rose by 3,037, to 400,275. It was the largest one-day increase in new cases since Jan. 21.
The state's death toll from the virus, as tracked by the Arkansas Department of Health, rose by 22, to 6,269. That pushed the rolling seven-day average of daily covid-19 deaths above 20 for the first time since February.
Because new cases of the coronavirus outpaced recoveries, the number of active cases rose by 1,254, to 22,715. Friday marked the first day since Jan. 18 in which more than 22,000 Arkansans had active cases of covid-19.
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