New cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Mississippi continued to climb higher Saturday as the state reported the latest statistics and the 14-day trailing average of new cases hit an all-time high.

A declining 14-day new case average is one of the federal government’s standards for whether or not the virus is being contained. Mississippi’s 14-day average hit 263 with Saturday’s update.

The Mississippi State Department of Health reported an additional 322 new cases have been confirmed in the last 24 hours bringing the total cases to 11,123.

The state announced Saturday morning 17 new deaths were attributed to the virus bringing the total death toll to 510. Two of the deaths reported Friday actually occurred earlier, but the reporting was delayed.

The state reported that 243 deaths were of residents of long-term care facilities or approximately 48 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	171	15	39	8
Alcorn	12	1	0	0
Amite	46	0	6	0
Attala	233	7	64	7
Benton	13	0	1	0
Bolivar	130	10	16	4
Calhoun	58	4	23	4
Carroll	110	6	45	5
Chickasaw	114	12	32	8
Choctaw	20	2	0	0
Claiborne	49	0	1	0
Clarke	98	12	14	5
Clay	79	3	0	0
Coahoma	76	3	0	0
Copiah	195	2	0	0
Covington	105	0	1	0
Desoto	384	5	9	1
Forrest	416	26	69	14
Franklin	19	1	1	0
George	17	1	0	0
Greene	7	1	0	0
Grenada	58	2	14	2
Hancock	79	10	6	3
Harrison	215	6	1	1
Hinds	768	22	73	13
Holmes	288	20	51	9
Humphreys	44	5	12	3
Issaquena	0	0	0	0
Itawamba	75	7	33	6
Jackson	284	13	39	4
Jasper	110	3	1	0
Jefferson	35	0	0	0
Jefferson Davis	68	2	3	1
Jones	319	8	40	3
Kemper	101	7	23	4
Lafayette	107	3	37	0
Lamar	173	4	3	2
Lauderdale	578	45	154	27
Lawrence	77	0	1	0
Leake	352	6	3	0
Lee	89	4	5	0
Leflore	200	22	51	11
Lincoln	202	18	68	14
Lowndes	112	4	9	2
Madison	526	17	84	11
Marion	87	7	14	2
Marshall	66	3	2	0
Monroe	222	23	92	20
Montgomery	71	1	0	0
Neshoba	397	21	47	11
Newton	186	2	2	0
Noxubee	134	2	11	2
Oktibbeha	102	6	28	4
Panola	50	2	0	0
Pearl River	195	26	42	8
Perry	36	2	0	0
Pike	176	11	14	6
Pontotoc	25	2	3	0
Prentiss	36	3	22	3
Quitman	21	0	0	0
Rankin	282	6	5	0
Scott	521	6	10	1
Sharkey	6	0	0	0
Simpson	75	0	4	0
Smith	111	7	27	4
Stone	24	0	0	0
Sunflower	69	3	0	0
Tallahatchie	18	1	0	0
Tate	56	0	2	0
Tippah	69	11	0	0
Tishomingo	14	0	1	0
Tunica	44	2	12	2
Union	60	4	18	3
Walthall	46	0	0	0
Warren	133	4	33	2
Washington	113	4	4	1
Wayne	37	0	3	0
Webster	23	1	0	0
Wilkinson	78	9	5	2
Winston	75	0	0	0
Yalobusha	71	0	24	0
Yazoo	182	2	4	0
Total	11,123	510	1,461	243

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

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