For the second day in a row, Mississippi reported higher-than-average numbers of new COVID-19 coronavirus cases Friday.

The Mississippi State Department of Health reported an additional 318 new cases have been confirmed in the last 24 hours bringing the total cases to 10,801. The state believes approximately 62 percent of the patients found to have coronavirus have recovered.

The state announced Friday morning 13 new deaths were attributed to the virus bringing the total death toll to 493. Two of the deaths reported Friday actually occurred earlier, but the reporting was delayed.

The state reported that 231 deaths were of residents of long-term care facilities or approximately 47 percent of all deaths in the state.

The seven-day average of new cases reported decreased with Friday’s data to 244 cases per day.

Here are the county by county numbers:

County	Total Cases	Total Deaths	Total LTC Facility Cases	Total LTC Facility Deaths
Adams	166	15	39	8
Alcorn	12	1	0	0
Amite	41	0	6	0
Attala	224	5	64	5
Benton	13	0	1	0
Bolivar	127	10	16	4
Calhoun	58	4	23	4
Carroll	109	4	45	3
Chickasaw	114	11	32	7
Choctaw	19	2	0	0
Claiborne	48	0	0	0
Clarke	97	11	14	5
Clay	78	3	0	0
Coahoma	75	3	0	0
Copiah	190	1	1	0
Covington	104	0 *	1	0
DeSoto	369	5	9	1
Forrest	380	26	69	14
Franklin	19	1	1	0
George	18	1	0	0
Greene	7	1	0	0
Grenada	58	2	14	2
Hancock	78	10	6	3
Harrison	214	6	1	1
Hinds	745	20	70	12
Holmes	278	19	51	9
Humphreys	42	5	11	3
Itawamba	75	7	33	6
Jackson	283	13	39	4
Jasper	110	3	1	0
Jefferson	34	0	0	0
Jefferson Davis	67	2 *	3	1
Jones	304	7	39	2
Kemper	100	7	23	4
Lafayette	107	3	37	0
Lamar	166	4	3	2
Lauderdale	566	45	135	27
Lawrence	74	0	1	0
Leake	351	6	3	0
Lee	85	4	5	0
Leflore	199	22	51	11
Lincoln	197	17	67	13
Lowndes	108	4	9	2
Madison	507	17	67	11
Marion	86	7	14	2
Marshall	65	2	2	0
Monroe	215	23	92	20
Montgomery	71	1	0	0
Neshoba	369	19	46	9
Newton	172	2	2	0
Noxubee	132	2	9	2
Oktibbeha	99	6	28	4
Panola	47	2	0	0
Pearl River	195	26	42	8
Perry	36	2	0	0
Pike	174	10	14	5
Pontotoc	25	2	3	0
Prentiss	36	2	22	2
Quitman	20	0	0	0
Rankin	276	6	5	0
Scott	504	6	10	1
Sharkey	5	0	0	0
Simpson	75	0	4	0
Smith	109	7	27	4
Stone	24	0	0	0
Sunflower	69	3	0	0
Tallahatchie	18	1	0	0
Tate	55	0	2	0
Tippah	67	11	0	0
Tishomingo	13	0	1	0
Tunica	44	2	12	2
Union	59	4	18	3
Walthall	44	0	0	0
Warren	129	4	33	2
Washington	100	4	4	1
Wayne	33	0	3	0
Webster	22	1	0	0
Wilkinson	78	9	5	2
Winston	73	0	0	0
Yalobusha	66	0	24	0
Yazoo	180	2	4	0
Total	10,801	493	1,416	231

* Note: One death that was previously reported from Covington County has been corrected to Jefferson Davis County.

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

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