No new deaths related to the COVID-19 pandemic were reported in Carroll County for the second consecutive week, but the number of active cases showed a marked increase, as did community transmission numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Arkansas Department of Health on Sept. 9 reported 73 active cases of the novel coronavirus were reported in Carroll County, an increase of 12 in seven days and 19 in 14 days.

The CDC, meanwhile, continued to rate Carroll County’s community transmission level in its weekly report at “low,” with a case rate of 151.52 per 100,000 — up from 123.33 on Sept. 2 — with new COVID-19 hospital admissions per 100,000 at 3.7, nearly double the previous week. The percentage of of staffed, inpatient beds in use by patients with confirmed COVID-19 was reported as 1.1 percent, up from 0.7 the previous week.

Carroll County saw an increase of 44 new cases of COVID-19 since Sept. 2, raising the pandemic total to 6,839 with 6,651 reported “recoveries” — meaning those individuals have passed the quarantine period and are no longer being monitored by the health department. The number of deaths from complications related to the virus remained at 115.

Statewide, the ADH reported an increase of 5,579 cases in the seven-day period ending Sept. 9, along with 6,452 recoveries, and an additional 28 deaths. Those increases bring the statewide totals to 939,541 cases with 916,453 recoveries and 11,951 deaths. The state health department reported 10,951 active cases on Sept. 2, down from the previous week’s reported total of 11,869.

On the vaccination front, the ADH reported that 1,661,543Arkansans aged 5 and older — 58.4 percent of the state’s eligible population — have been fully vaccinated against the virus. In Carroll County, the health department reported that 54.4 percent of eligible residents are fully vaccinated, with an additional 7.5 percent listed as partially vaccinated.