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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 announced that a two-day surge campaign for testing is underway. He said that not enough people are getting tested in the state and this campaign's goal is to increase testing from 1,000 people per day to 1,500 per day. All people showing even mild symptoms are encouraged to get tested.
This is part of the state's goal to increase testing capacity with four steps. One step is increasing sero-surveillance screening, which finds people who may have had the virus sometime in the past and developed antibodies without major symptoms or were totally asymptomatic.
Hutchinson said that there have been 2,249 COVID-19 cases in Arkansas.
Of the active cases, 101 are hospitalized with 24 on ventilators. There are 174 cases among nursing home residents. There have been 45 deaths in Arkansas. Of the total cases in Arkansas, 902 have recovered.
Cases continue to grow among Arkansas prison inmates and staff with 122 cases among inmates in Cummins Unit.
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 23 at 2:30 p.m., the United States deaths attributed to COVID-19 are 47,272.
You can view the Arkansas Department of Health's statewide interactive COVID-19 map
here.
Paycheck Protection Program
Monday afternoon, CFO Liz Mathis announced that the POA had received and returned loan documents to Regions Bank for a Payroll Protection Program loan in the amount of $3,089,000 at 1 percent interest. The POA is awaiting final processing of these funds, which may be eligible for loan forgiveness.
Saline & Garland Counties
As of Wednesday, 49 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Saline County and 646 have tested negative. Of those testing positive, 29 have recovered. The total number of people who have died in Saline County remains at one.
In Garland County, 109 people have tested positive for COVID-19 and 1,491 have tested negative. Of the people infected, 68 have recovered. There have been no deaths resulting from Garland County cases.
Sen. Tom Cotton's office has provided an update on the SBA payments (
see here) and a FAQ on Business Interruption Insurance (
see here).
Cancellations & Postponements
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