Mississippi State Health Department officials announced Saturday morning the second-highest single day increase in COVID-19 coronavirus cases within the state.

State health officials reported 284 new confirmed cases of the virus Saturday, bringing the state’s total to 5,718 cases since March 11. It was the 17th day in a row the number of new cases rose by more than 100.

The state reported 12 more people died in the state over the last 24 hours due to the virus, bringing the state’s total number of deaths to 221.

State health officials are also now reporting racial breakdowns of both cases and deaths.

Black Mississippians make up 52% of all positive coronavirus cases. But blacks make up 60% of the deaths related to the virus.

The state also tracks the number cases found in long-term care facilities such as nursing homes that are considered high risk due to their residents being in close confines, often being older and often having underlying health issues.

For the sake of reporting, the state considers even a single case of coronavirus among staff or residents of these facilities as an “outbreak” and are tracked by county below.

Here are the county by county numbers:

County	Total Cases	Total Deaths	Total Cases in LTC Facilities
Adams	109	7	17
Alcorn	9	0	0
Amite	23	0	1
Attala	80	0	14
Benton	9	0	0
Bolivar	94	7	13
Calhoun	48	3	22
Carroll	15	1	0
Chickasaw	56	4	16
Choctaw	13	1	0
Claiborne	18	0	0
Clarke	44	3	9
Clay	32	2	0
Coahoma	54	2	1
Copiah	68	1	1
Covington	45	0	0
Desoto	263	4	1
Forrest	181	7	16
Franklin	16	1	0
George	11	1	0
Greene	4	1	0
Grenada	27	0	14
Hancock	59	5	7
Harrison	158	6	1
Hinds	412	7	11
Holmes	100	5	24
Humphreys	14	3	1
Itawamba	33	1	13
Jackson	237	6	38
Jasper	32	1	0
Jefferson	8	0	0
Jefferson Davis	22	1	0
Jones	116	0	9
Kemper	40	0	1
Lafayette	87	3	31
Lamar	85	2	0
Lauderdale	284	19	67
Lawrence	30	0	1
Leake	149	1	0
Lee	72	5	4
Leflore	131	15	27
Lincoln	136	8	45
Lowndes	41	2	2
Madison	186	5	10
Marion	57	5	13
Marshall	41	2	0
Monroe	123	9	49
Montgomery	18	1	0
Neshoba	119	2	1
Newton	58	0	1
Noxubee	45	0	1
Oktibbeha	46	3	6
Panola	36	2	0
Pearl River	148	14	28
Perry	25	1	0
Pike	133	5	8
Pontotoc	18	2	1
Prentiss	29	1	18
Quitman	14	0	0
Rankin	162	5	5
Scott	240	0	8
Sharkey	4	0	0
Simpson	38	0	2
Smith	58	3	18
Stone	22	0	0
Sunflower	51	2	0
Tallahatchie	11	1	0
Tate	38	0	1
Tippah	51	7	0
Tishomingo	7	0	0
Tunica	34	1	12
Union	14	1	1
Walthall	27	0	0
Warren	45	2	0
Washington	77	3	4
Wayne	19	0	0
Webster	16	1	0
Wilkinson	68	7	5
Winston	38	0	0
Yalobusha	17	0	0
Yazoo	120	1	0
Total	5,718	221	599

Table above now lists the number of cases in long-term care facilities, and not the number of facilities with outbreaks.

For more detailed graphics on Mississippi’s coronavirus statistics, please visit:

https://www.magnoliastatelive.com/video-mississippis-coronavirus-case-by-the-numbers/