For several days leading up to Gov. Asa Hutchinson's Thursday COVID-19 briefing, the number of active cases in Arkansas had hovered around 6,500. This number was down from a peak of more than 7,000 active cases last week. Thursday, there were 791 new cases of COVID-19 in Arkansas for a total of 41,559 positive cases since March. Sebastian County had 57 new cases Thursday, which was second only to Pulaski County with 73. Hutchinson showed a graph depicting the overall positivity rate for the state and it stood just below the 10% threshold recommended by the Center for Disease Control...
