LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Governor Asa Hutchinson announced 1,777 new cases and 52 additional deaths due to COVID-19 in Arkansas on Wednesday, January 27.
There are now 17,686 cases statewide considered active by the Arkansas Department of Health.
A total of 1,029 people are hospitalized and 157 are on ventilators.
The statewide death toll due to COVID-19 is now 4,742.
There have been 280,505 PCR tests this month and 72,335 antigen tests.
Top counties reporting new cases:
- Pulaski – 304
- Benton – 159
- Washington – 152
- Sebastian – 97
- Faulkner – 79
