May 13, 2020

CURRENT COMMUNITY MITIGATION LEVEL 
SUBSTANTIAL
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 COVID-19 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
Gov. Asa Hutchinson began today's COVID-19 update by recognizing Herman Higgs. Higgs is a veteran of WWII who has just turned 103.   
 
Hutchinson said the state is still seeing a spike in community cases. In the last 24 hours, there has been only one case found in Arkansas prisons but 71 found in the general community.     
 
Arkansas so far has 4,236 COVID-19 cases total. Of those, 862 are active with 295 cases in prisons and 95 in the state's nursing homes. The remaining 477 active cases that have been detected are in the community. There is concern over the number of infected people in the community who have not been tested and potentially spreading the virus without knowing. Currently, there are 64 people hospitalized, 13 of those on ventilators, and 97 people have died from the virus.  
 
Hutchinson said that the testing goal for May is still 60,000. So far in May, 23,949 people have been tested, approximately 40 percent of the goal. 
 
There are 50 nursing homes in Arkansas with active cases. Of those cases, 299 cases are in residents and 174 are in the staff. Hutchinson said that if fighting the virus is a war, then "testing is our radar system." 
 
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 May 13 at 2:30 p.m., the United States deaths attributed to COVID-19 are 83,150. 
 
You can view the Arkansas Department of Health's statewide interactive COVID-19 map here.       
 
Saline & Garland Counties 
As of Wednesday, 75 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Saline County and 2,072 have tested negative. Of those testing positive, 67 have recovered. The total number of people who have died in Saline County remains at one.
 
In Garland County, 120 people have tested positive for COVID-19 and 2,913 have tested negative. Of the people infected, 114 have recovered and one has died.    
 
Finance & Planning Committee to meet
The Hot Springs Village Finance and Planning Committee will meet Thursday, May 14, at 4 p.m.
 
This meeting will be streamed on the POA YouTube Channel.   
 
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/    
 
We invite you to communicate cancellations and postponements to jprice@hsvpoa.org. For changes to our event calendar, please email your information to Katrina Heap at kheap@hsvpoa.org.
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