Mississippi’s COVID-19 coronavirus cases and deaths continued a steady climb Saturday with the latest statistics reported by the Mississippi State Health Department.

State health officials reported 229 new cases, bring the total number of infections confirmed to be 7,441.

Saturday’s new case count was far less than the record spike reported on Friday of nearly 400 new cases, but in line with recent daily averages.

It was the 24th day in a row the number of new cases rose by more than 100 cases per day. The state believes of the total cases detected a little less than half have fully recovered.

The state reported 10 more people died in the state due to the virus, bringing the state’s total number of deaths to 291. Six of the 10 deaths reported Saturday were apparently of people who were residents of long-term care facilities.

The state reported that 116 deaths were of residents of long-term care facilities or 40 percent of all deaths in the state.

The hospitalization rate improved with a drop of 30 patients from the previous day. The state reported Saturday that 424 confirmed coronavirus cases were hospitalized. Another 208 suspected (but not yet confirmed by test) cases were also hospitalized.

The state said 142 patients were in ICU beds and 71 required mechanical ventilation. Both statistics were improved slightly from the prior day.

Here are the county by county numbers:

County	Total Cases	Total Deaths	Total LTC Facility Cases	Total LTC Facility Deaths
Adams	149	9	24	4
Alcorn	10	1	0	0
Amite	28	0	1	0
Attala	117	1	35	1
Benton	12	0	1	0
Bolivar	105	7	14	1
Calhoun	54	3	23	3
Carroll	60	1	2	0
Chickasaw	76	8	25	6
Choctaw	13	1	0	0
Claiborne	27	0	0	0
Clarke	58	3	10	2
Clay	47	2	0	0
Coahoma	66	3	0	0
Copiah	114	1	1	1
Covington	67	0	0	0
Desoto	294	4	1	1
Forrest	226	13	20	6
Franklin	16	1	0	0
George	14	1	0	0
Greene	5	1	0	0
Grenada	34	0	14	0
Hancock	67	5	6	3
Harrison	181	6	1	1
Hinds	505	8	15	4
Holmes	159	9	27	2
Humphreys	25	4	6	2
Itawamba	62	4	32	3
Jackson	267	7	40	1
Jasper	54	1	0	0
Jefferson	21	0	0	0
Jefferson Davis	38	1	2	0
Jones	168	2	11	0
Kemper	67	3	15	1
Lafayette	89	3	35	0
Lamar	114	2	1	0
Lauderdale	378	25	88	14
Lawrence	50	0	1	0
Leake	229	1	0	0
Lee	71	4	5	0
Leflore	165	17	42	7
Lincoln	150	11	48	7
Lowndes	58	2	4	1
Madison	268	8	33	5
Marion	75	7	14	2
Marshall	45	2	0	0
Monroe	173	16	86	14
Montgomery	32	1	0	0
Neshoba	212	4	23	0
Newton	88	0	1	0
Noxubee	79	1	9	1
Oktibbeha	52	3	9	3
Panola	39	2	0	0
Pearl River	176	20	41	6
Perry	27	1	0	0
Pike	153	7	12	4
Pontotoc	20	2	2	0
Prentiss	32	1	20	1
Quitman	15	0	0	0
Rankin	197	5	5	0
Scott	354	1	9	1
Sharkey	5	0	0	0
Simpson	47	0	2	0
Smith	78	4	21	2
Stone	22	0	0	0
Sunflower	55	2	0	0
Tallahatchie	12	1	0	0
Tate	41	0	1	0
Tippah	56	10	0	0
Tishomingo	8	0	1	0
Tunica	35	2	12	2
Union	25	2	5	1
Walthall	32	0	0	0
Warren	78	2	1	0
Washington	77	3	4	1
Wayne	24	0	0	0
Webster	19	1	0	0
Wilkinson	69	7	5	2
Winston	47	0	0	0
Yalobusha	20	0	0	0
Yazoo	144	1	0	0
Total	7,441	291	866	116

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

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