After a day when stats seemed to indicate Mississippi’s coronavirus cases and deaths may be waning yesterday, the Mississippi State Health Department announced Tuesday a bounce in cases and deaths related to the virus pandemic.

State health officials reported 248 new cases. It was the 20th day in a row the number of new cases rose by more than 100.

The state reported 10 more people died in the state over the last 24 hours due to the virus, bringing the state’s total number of deaths to 239. That was the lowest single-day death count in approximately two weeks.

On Monday the state had reported only 2 new deaths and 183 new cases.

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 59% 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	123	8	21
Alcorn	10	0	0
Amite	26	0	1
Attala	89	0	22
Benton	9	0	0
Bolivar	101	7	13
Calhoun	50	3	22
Carroll	22	1	2
Chickasaw	67	6	22
Choctaw	13	1	0
Claiborne	19	0	0
Clarke	49	3	10
Clay	33	2	0
Coahoma	60	3	1
Copiah	83	1	1
Covington	54	0	0
Desoto	272	4	2
Forrest	196	8	19
Franklin	16	1	0
George	12	1	0
Greene	5	1	0
Grenada	28	0	14
Hancock	61	5	7
Harrison	166	6	1
Hinds	435	7	13
Holmes	121	5	26
Humphreys	18	3	1
Itawamba	51	2	28
Jackson	252	6	39
Jasper	33	1	0
Jefferson	16	0	0
Jefferson Davis	29	1	1
Jones	132	1	10
Kemper	50	1	5
Lafayette	88	3	35
Lamar	94	2	0
Lauderdale	318	19	75
Lawrence	38	0	1
Leake	179	1	0
Lee	71	4	5
Leflore	141	15	27
Lincoln	136	9	46
Lowndes	49	2	3
Madison	212	7	22
Marion	66	5	13
Marshall	42	2	0
Monroe	153	12	76
Montgomery	19	1	0
Neshoba	169	3	2
Newton	73	0	1
Noxubee	55	0	8
Oktibbeha	48	3	6
Panola	38	2	0
Pearl River	154	15	30
Perry	26	1	0
Pike	142	7	12
Pontotoc	18	2	1
Prentiss	31	1	19
Quitman	14	0	0
Rankin	179	5	6
Scott	281	0	8
Sharkey	5	0	0
Simpson	43	0	2
Smith	66	4	18
Stone	22	0	0
Sunflower	52	2	0
Tallahatchie	11	1	0
Tate	39	0	1
Tippah	53	7	0
Tishomingo	7	0	1
Tunica	35	1	12
Union	16	1	1
Walthall	30	0	0
Warren	58	2	0
Washington	77	3	4
Wayne	19	0	0
Webster	17	1	0
Wilkinson	68	7	5
Winston	41	0	0
Yalobusha	19	0	0
Yazoo	129	1	0
Total	6,342	239	721

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/