LITTLE ROCK -- Arkansas on Monday reported 94 new cases of the coronavirus and seven more deaths, but the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19, the illness the virus causes, continued to drop.
The Department of Health said the state's confirmed and probable cases since the pandemic began now totals 322,509. The number of people who have died due to COVID-19 now totals 5,250. The state's COVID-19 hospitalizations dropped by 14 to 441.
The low number of new cases comes the day after Arkansas saw a spike that officials said was due to a cleanup in virus data. The state on Sunday reported 3,220 new cases, but the department said 2,932 of them occurred before Feb. 14. The state's reported COVID-19 deaths also dropped by 174 on Sunday because some deaths had been reclassified and duplicates removed.
The department on Monday reported 636,600 of the 989,580 coronavirus vaccine doses the state has received so far had been given.