LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Governor Asa Hutchinson announced 245 new cases and six additional deaths due to COVID-19 in Arkansas on Monday, February 22.
There are now 4,899 cases statewide considered active by the Arkansas Department of Health.
A total of 588 people are hospitalized and 109 are on ventilators.
The statewide death toll due to COVID-19 is now 5,363.


There have been 141,673 PCR tests this month and 63,203 antigen tests.
Top counties reporting new cases:
- Pulaski – 34
- Garland – 21
- Benton – 18
- Pope – 16
- Sevier – 13
- White – 13