COVID-19 cases in the community Sept. 1, 2021

Below are the number of COVID-19 cases, active cases, and deaths recorded on Tuesday, August 31, 2021 in Union County, Arkansas, the United States and the world. Additionally, local and state testing, recovery, hospitalization and vaccine information is provided.

The data was gathered from the Arkansas Department of Health for Union County and Arkansas, and from Johns Hopkins University for the U.S. and world.

Union County

4,873 cases (+28)

192 active cases (+5)

4,561 recoveries (+23)

118 deaths (+0)

40,236 tests performed

35,363 negative test results

23,788 vaccine doses administered (+191)

33.1% county population fully immunized

In the Southwest hospital region of the state, where Union County sits, 198 people were hospitalized due to COVID-19 Tuesday including 81 in intensive care units and 56 on ventilator support. Additionally, there were 375 pediatric COVID-19 cases active in the in the region Tuesday, out of a total of 6,442 pediatric cases identified in the region.

Arkansas

452,891 cases (+2,626)

80,580 pediatric cases (+911)

22,422 active cases (-5)

6,784 active pediatric cases (+205)

423,421 recoveries (+2,609)

6,934 deaths (+22)

4,547,852 tests performed

4,075,433 negative test results

1,212 hospitalized; 531 in ICUs; 288 on ventilator support

2,696,718 vaccine doses administered (+13,642)

1,218,992 Arkansans fully immunized (+7,871)

United States

39,151,493 cases

639,603 deaths

World

217,512,138 cases

4,515,853 deaths