April 29, 2020

CURRENT COMMUNITY MITIGATION LEVEL 
SUBSTANTIAL TO SHELTER IN PLACE
 
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.     

We encourage you to visit our webpage  https://explorethevillage.com/members/hsv-covid-19/ that is being used to provide the latest updates, including closings and postponements.
 
State of Arkansas
Today, Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced that restaurants in the state will be allowed to reopen for dine-in services at a limited capacity on May 11. During this period, the restaurants will only be allowed to have one-third of their capacity at a time. Bar service and entertainment will not be allowed. In the second phase, the restaurants will go up to two-thirds of capacity for dine-in services. Normal services return in the third phase. 
 
The governor also announced the formation of the Arkansas Ready for Business grant program. This program is meant to help businesses and boost consumer confidence in the state. Grants of up to $100,000 will be available.  
 
For more information on the Arkansas Ready for Business grant program click here.   
 
There have been 3,192 cases of the coronavirus, 59 of which have resulted in death. As of today, 93 people are hospitalized in the state and 18 are on ventilators.  
 
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 29 at 2:30 p.m., the United States deaths attributed to COVID-19 are 59,392. 
 
You can view the Arkansas Department of Health's statewide interactive COVID-19 map here.     
 
Saline & Garland Counties 
As of Wednesday, 57 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Saline County and 1,045 have tested negative. Of those testing positive, 40 have recovered. The total number of people who have died in Saline County remains at one.
 
In Garland County, 115 people have tested positive for COVID-19 and 1,944 have tested negative. Of the people infected, 79 have recovered. There have been no deaths resulting from Garland County cases.    
 
Cancellations & Postponements 
For a summary of all the closures/postpones and most up to date information concerning COVID-19 please use our website link at https://explorethevillage.com/members/hsv-covid-19/   
  • The Coronado Community Fair will not go forward on May 20 due to the continued precautions in place due to Covid-19. We currently plan to reschedule it for a date in the early fall. Your current booth assignment will remain in place.  We will continue to update you as soon as decisions are made regarding the rescheduled date.
     
We invite you to communicate cancellations and postponements to [email protected]. For changes to our event calendar, please email your information to Katrina Heap at [email protected].
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