Stories from Friday, May 8, 2020

Governor Asa Hutchinson has announced a new text alert system with the ability to provide timely COVID-19 alerts and other critical guidance directly from the Arkansas Division Emergency Management to Arkansas residents. Arkansans can opt-in to the new system today by texting ‘COVID19ARK’ to 67283. ...

As of 8:45 a.m. this morning, the Arkansas Department of Health website has the following information on COVID-19 for the state. There have been 3,694 positive tests (1,535 active) with 2,159 recoveries and 88 deaths. There have been 63,994 tested with 60.300 tests being negative...

Governor Asa Hutchinson announced during his press conference Friday that the General Assembly and Arkansas Legislative Council approved the Arkansas Ready for Business Grant program. That will give $147 million in grant to small businesses in the state. Businesses can go to arkansasready.com for information on how to reopen state businesses safely. He also said that it was for approval for payments to medical workers that were not covered by Medicaid...