One day after a nearly three-week, daily low in new COVID-19 coronavirus cases, Mississippi reported its second-highest number of cases Monday with more than 300 new cases reported.

State health officials reported 310 new cases, bring the total number of infections confirmed to be 7,877. Monday’s report was the second-highest day for new virus cases. The highest daily cases reported was on Friday when 397 cases were recorded.

The state reported 7 more people died in the state due to the virus in the last 24 hours, bringing the state’s total number of deaths to 310.

Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs said Monday that Mississippians must continue to be vigiliant.

“We still have a lot of COVID cases,” Dobbs said. “It’s still out there.”

Dobbs said people need to keep up the precautions in place — social distancing, wearing masks, etc., – to “help us get out of this.”

Dobbs said use of masks in public is a must to limit spread.

“It’s a little bit selfish for folks not not wear a mask,” he said.

The state reported that 125 deaths were of residents of long-term care facilities or 40 percent of all deaths in the state.

On Monday the state reported 442 confirmed coronavirus cases were hospitalized. Another 204 suspected (but not yet confirmed by test) cases were also hospitalized, the state reported. Both statistics were slightly lower than reported Sunday.

The state said 145 patients were in ICU beds and 78 required mechanical ventilation. Both statistics were slightly higher than 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	30	0	1	0
Attala	128	2	35	2
Benton	12	0	1	0
Bolivar	110	7	14	1
Calhoun	56	4	23	4
Carroll	77	2	4	1
Chickasaw	78	8	25	6
Choctaw	14	1	0	0
Claiborne	30	0	0	0
Clarke	62	3	11	2
Clay	52	2	0	0
Coahoma	70	3	0	0
Copiah	124	1	2	1
Covington	74	0	0	0
Desoto	304	4	1	1
Forrest	248	14	21	6
Franklin	18	1	0	0
George	14	1	0	0
Greene	6	1	0	0
Grenada	35	2	14	2
Hancock	68	5	6	3
Harrison	184	6	1	1
Hinds	542	9	16	5
Holmes	168	10	27	2
Humphreys	25	4	6	2
Itawamba	64	4	32	3
Jackson	267	7	39	1
Jasper	62	1	0	0
Jefferson	23	0	0	0
Jefferson Davis	43	1	2	0
Jones	185	2	13	0
Kemper	79	3	19	1
Lafayette	93	3	35	0
Lamar	121	3	1	0
Lauderdale	432	27	100	14
Lawrence	53	0	1	0
Leake	247	2	0	0
Lee	72	4	5	0
Leflore	174	17	42	7
Lincoln	154	11	49	7
Lowndes	61	3	5	2
Madison	286	10	39	7
Marion	75	7	14	2
Marshall	48	2	0	0
Monroe	175	16	88	14
Montgomery	35	1	0	0
Neshoba	222	4	25	0
Newton	93	0	1	0
Noxubee	88	1	9	1
Oktibbeha	54	3	9	3
Panola	40	2	0	0
Pearl River	181	20	41	6
Perry	31	1	0	0
Pike	155	7	13	4
Pontotoc	22	2	4	0
Prentiss	32	1	20	1
Quitman	16	0	0	0
Rankin	207	6	6	0
Scott	369	2	9	1
Sharkey	5	0	0	0
Simpson	49	0	2	0
Smith	81	4	23	2
Stone	22	0	0	0
Sunflower	57	3	0	0
Tallahatchie	12	1	0	0
Tate	45	0	1	0
Tippah	58	10	0	0
Tishomingo	8	0	1	0
Tunica	36	2	12	2
Union	30	2	8	1
Walthall	33	0	0	0
Warren	83	2	5	0
Washington	77	3	4	1
Wayne	24	0	1	0
Webster	20	1	0	0
Wilkinson	70	7	5	2
Winston	49	0	0	0
Yalobusha	20	0	0	0
Yazoo	151	2	0	0
Total	7,877	310	915	125

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

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