Governor Asa Hutchinson provides an update to media on Tuesday, September 8, 2020, live at 1:30 p.m. regarding Arkansas's COVID-19 response.
The Arkansas Department of Health is partnering with Little Rock-based Baptist Health to boost COVID-19 testing capacity by 20%. Governor Hutchinson said the ADH lab has grown capacity from being able to do about 20 tests a day when the pandemic hit Arkansas in March, to now performing up to 3,000 tests a day.