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CURRENT COMMUNITY MITIGATION LEVEL
SUBSTANTIAL TO SHELTER IN PLACE
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The health, safety and welfare of our property owners, residents, employees, visitors and businesses are priority one for Hot Springs Village. We encourage social distancing or sheltering in place to prevent COVID19 from spreading in our community.
Many of our local businesses offer delivery, online ordering, gift certificates and other creative methods to serve their customers while maintaining safe distancing. Please support these businesses.
Today, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said that a two-day surge campaign for testing is met and exceeded its goals of 1,500 tests each day. With the recent surge of testing, the positivity rate for the virus in Arkansas is 1.8 percent.
The governor said that new cases in Arkansas are still on a downward trajectory, and plans to begin the first phase of reopening on May 4 are still in place.
Hutchinson said that there have been 3,017 COVID-19 cases in Arkansas.
Of the active cases, 109 are hospitalized with 25 on ventilators. There are 203 cases in nursing homes. There have been 50 deaths in Arkansas. Of the total cases in Arkansas, 987 have recovered.
You can watch the governor's daily update on his YouTube page
here.
A statewide map is available that shows national, state and county numbers in regards to COVID-19. As of April 27 at 2:30 p.m., the United States deaths attributed to COVID-19 are 55,563.
You can view the Arkansas Department of Health's statewide interactive COVID-19 map
here.
Saline & Garland Counties
Across the country, state and local governments are beginning to see the financial impact as the coronavirus pandemic dries up many local revenue sources.
"In a recent article The National Association of Counties estimated that counties could be facing as much as $150 billion in lost revenues," Saline County Judge Jeff Arey said. "It's never been more important for Arkansans to be counted in the 2020 Census. The data gathered in the US Census is essential to determining the amount of funding Arkansas receives for education, health care, roads and other resources we rely on every day. Even a 1 percent undercount here in Saline County could result in a loss of nearly $42 million over the next ten years."
Current conditions with the pandemic make it important to self-respond to the 2020 Census. For the first time people can choose to complete the census online, by phone or by mail. Find out more about each of these methods below.
As of Wednesday, 55 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Saline County and 866 have tested negative. Of those testing positive, 32 have recovered. The total number of people who have died in Saline County remains at one.
In Garland County, 111 people have tested positive for COVID-19 and 1,703 have tested negative. Of the people infected, 72 have recovered. There have been no deaths resulting from Garland County cases.
Cancellations & Postponements
- The Optimist Club meeting scheduled for Tuesday, May 5, has been canceled.
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