As 30 percent of Mississippi’s counties show a marked decline in confirmed coronavirus cases, four counties have shown a significant rise in COVID-19 coronavirus cases in the last eight days.

Carroll County is the current hot spot of the state. In the last six days, Carroll County has seen the number of virus cases triple from 18 cases on April 26 to 58 cases reported on Friday.

Taking just three days for cases to double, virus cases are doubling at a rate three times as fast as the state average.

Comparatively, across the entire state the number of virus cases are doubling every 17 days.

In three other counties —Jefferson County, Noxubee County and Kemper County — the number of virus cases is doubling at a rate twice as fast as the state.

In Neshoba County — where cases are doubling every nine days — residents have seen cases rise from 55 cases two weeks ago to 205 cases on Friday.

Residents in Scott County have seen a similar increase in virus cases from 100 cases two weeks ago to 339 cases on Friday.

On a brighter note, 27 counties have seen cases rise at a much slower rate than the state average — taking more than three weeks for cases to double.

Metropolitan areas such as DeSoto County near Memphis, Harrison County on the Gulf Coast and Rankin County near Jackson are seeing cases double every 21 days or more.

Here is a county-by-county look at how virus cases are increasing across the state.

	Number of days it takes cases to double	Cases  on Friday
Carroll	3	58
Jefferson	6	20
Kemper	8	64
Noxubee	8	73
Jefferson Davis	9	35
Neshoba	9	205
Warren	9	74
Attala	10	109
Copiah	10	108
Itawamba	10	59
Jasper	10	48
Lawrence	10	46
Leake	10	219
Newton	10	87
Scott	10	339
Wayne	10	23
Claiborne	11	23
Holmes	11	153
Covington	12	67
Humphreys	12	24
Jones	12	159
Monroe	12	161
Clarke	13	55
Simpson	13	47
Adams	14	148
Benton	14	12
Lafayette	14	89
Leflore	14	164
Prentiss	14	32
Tishomingo	14	7
Union	14	19
Grenada	15	32
Lauderdale	15	365
Lincoln	15	143
Madison	15	251
Smith	15	76
Chickasaw	16	75
Clay	16	42
Marion	16	75
State Average	17	4,287
Lamar	17	111
Lowndes	17	58
Pike	17	149
Winston	17	44
Yazoo	17	139
Amite	18	29
Calhoun	18	52
Greene	18	5
Tallahatchie	18	11
Forrest	19	219
Stone	19	22
George	20	14
Hinds	20	496
Montgomery	20	29
Pearl River	20	175
Rankin	21	194
Walthall	21	32
Alcorn	21+	10
Bolivar	21+	102
Choctaw	21+	13
Coahoma	21+	64
DeSoto	21+	293
Franklin	21+	16
Hancock	21+	62
Harrison	21+	177
Jackson	21+	267
Lee	21+	71
Marshall	21+	44
Oktibbeha	21+	51
Panola	21+	39
Perry	21+	27
Pontotoc	21+	18
Quitman	21+	15
Sharkey	21+	5
Sunflower	21+	55
Tate	21+	42
Tippah	21+	56
Tunica	21+	35
Washington	21+	77
Webster	21+	19
Wilkinson	21+	69
Yalobusha	21+	20