As Mississippi counties continue to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus, some counties have seen dramatic jumps in the number of reported cases.

In the last seven days, one Mississippi county saw its confirmed cases of COVID-10 increase tenfold. One other county, a few miles saw the number of its cases increase by 900%.

The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 more than doubled in 12 Mississippi county.

On March 31, the Mississippi Department of Health reported one case of the virus in Smith County.

In seven days, the number of cases in the south-central rural county jumped 10 times – or 1000% — to a total of 11 cases.

Similarly, Kemper County on the eastern border of the state saw its number of cases multiply from 1 case to 10 cases — a 900% increase — in the same period between March 31 and April 7.

As a whole, the state experienced a 104% increase in cases in the same period. On March 31, MSDH reported 937 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the state. Seven days later that number stands a 1,915 case — an increase of 978 cases.

In addition to Smith and Kemper counties, 10 other counties saw the number of virus cases more than double.

• Carroll County — 600% increase
• Warren County — 600% increase
• Perry County — 367% increase
• Lamar County — 260% increase
• Yazoo County — 256% increase
• Covington County — 250% increase
• Newton County — 250% increase
• Simpson County — 250% increase
• Calhoun County — 233% increase
• Scott County — 220% increase

Some counties in the state are just beginning to report cases. On March 31, Green, Jasper, Stone and Wayne counties reported zero cases of the virus. On Tuesday, the counties had reported between 1 and 5 cases since last week.

On Tuesday Jefferson Davis County and Issaquena counties have yet to report any cases.

Some counties have seen the number of cases remain steady or slowly rise in the last seven days. Both Tishomingo County and Lawrence County have not seen any new cases since the last day of March. Benton County has only had one additional case and Chickasaw County has had two new cases reported in the last seven days.

Here is a county-by-county look at how the number of reported COVID-19 cases has increased in Mississippi since March 31.

 

County	31-Mar	7-Apr	% increase
Smith	1	11	1000%
Kemper	1	10	900%
Carroll	1	7	600%
Warren	1	7	600%
Perry	3	14	367%
Lamar	5	18	260%
Yazoo	9	32	256%
Covington	2	7	250%
Newton	2	7	250%
Simpson	2	7	250%
Calhoun	3	10	233%
Scott	10	32	220%
Claiborne	1	3	200%
Jefferson	1	3	200%
Leake	5	15	200%
Monroe	6	18	200%
Neshoba	4	12	200%
Quitman	3	9	200%
Sharkey	1	3	200%
Forrest	21	59	181%
Walthall	5	14	180%
Panola	7	19	171%
Jackson	40	108	170%
Grenada	3	8	167%
Marion	5	13	160%
Clarke	4	10	150%
Clay	4	10	150%
Prentiss	4	10	150%
Bolivar	22	54	145%
Winston	7	17	143%
Adams	10	24	140%
Pontotoc	5	12	140%
Webster	5	12	140%
Jones	6	14	133%
Wilkinson	14	32	129%
Sunflower	11	25	127%
Lauderdale	35	78	123%
Alcorn	3	6	100%
Union	3	6	100%
Washington	20	40	100%
Harrison	45	89	98%
Madison	42	82	95%
Rankin	40	78	95%
Hancock	16	31	94%
Lincoln	11	21	91%
Copiah	9	17	89%
Hinds	90	169	88%
Pearl River	30	56	87%
Yalobusha	6	11	83%
Pike	17	31	82%
Amite	4	7	75%
Marshall	14	24	71%
Montgomery	7	12	71%
Oktibbeha	17	29	71%
Desoto	84	140	67%
Franklin	3	5	67%
George	3	5	67%
Holmes	15	25	67%
Humphreys	3	5	67%
Itawamba	3	5	67%
Lafayette	15	25	67%
Noxubee	3	5	67%
Tate	11	18	64%
Lee	24	38	58%
Attala	10	15	50%
Choctaw	6	9	50%
Tallahatchie	2	3	50%
Lowndes	11	16	45%
Coahoma	21	30	43%
Tunica	12	17	42%
Tippah	26	36	38%
Leflore	19	26	37%
Benton	4	5	25%
Chickasaw	13	15	15%
Lawrence	5	5	0%
Tishomingo	1	1	0%
Mississippi	937	1902	104%