New cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Mississippi rose Monday but at a much lower rate than the prior week’s average, causing the 14-day trailing average of new cases begin declining.

The federal government recommends states consider keeping restrictions in place until the state has 14 days of declining new case counts.

Mississippi’s 14-day average of daily new cases dropped to 254 with Monday’s updated statistics.

The Mississippi State Department of Health reported an additional 136 new cases have been confirmed in the last 24 hours bringing the total cases to 11,432.

The state announced Monday morning 7 new deaths were attributed to the virus bringing the total death toll to 528.

The state reported that 254 deaths were of residents of long-term care facilities or approximately 48 percent of all deaths in the state.

Here are the county by county numbers:

County	Total Cases	Total Deaths	Total LTC Facility Cases	Total LTC Facility Deaths
Adams	173	15	39	8
Alcorn	12	1	0	0
Amite	46	0	6	0
Attala	248	7	64	7
Benton	13	0	1	0
Bolivar	129	10	16	4
Calhoun	58	4	23	4
Carroll	110	7	45	6
Chickasaw	116	12	32	8
Choctaw	23	2	0	0
Claiborne	49	0	1	0
Clarke	102	13	14	5
Clay	79	3	0	0
Coahoma	79	3	0	0
Copiah	204	2	0	0
Covington	108	0	1	0
Desoto	391	5	12	1
Forrest	442	27	69	15
Franklin	21	1	2	0
George	17	1	0	0
Greene	7	1	0	0
Grenada	60	2	14	2
Hancock	81	10	6	3
Harrison	216	6	1	1
Hinds	772	22	72	13
Holmes	298	20	51	9
Humphreys	46	5	12	3
Itawamba	79	7	33	6
Jackson	287	13	39	4
Jasper	114	3	1	0
Jefferson	37	0	0	0
Jefferson Davis	68	2	3	1
Jones	342	9	42	4
Kemper	102	9	25	5
Lafayette	109	3	37	0
Lamar	175	4	3	2
Lauderdale	589	46	156	28
Lawrence	78	0	1	0
Leake	361	6	4	0
Lee	93	4	7	0
Leflore	200	22	51	11
Lincoln	218	18	68	14
Lowndes	126	6	9	4
Madison	543	17	89	11
Marion	89	8	14	2
Marshall	67	3	2	0
Monroe	220	23	92	20
Montgomery	72	1	0	0
Neshoba	423	24	48	13
Newton	192	3	2	0
Noxubee	140	3	14	3
Oktibbeha	105	6	28	4
Panola	50	2	0	0
Pearl River	195	26	42	8
Perry	36	2	0	0
Pike	178	11	14	6
Pontotoc	25	2	3	0
Prentiss	36	3	22	3
Quitman	21	0	0	0
Rankin	287	6	5	0
Scott	532	8	11	1
Sharkey	6	0	0	0
Simpson	78	0	4	0
Smith	115	7	28	4
Stone	24	0	0	0
Sunflower	68	3	0	0
Tallahatchie	21	1	0	0
Tate	55	0	2	0
Tippah	69	11	0	0
Tishomingo	14	0	1	0
Tunica	44	2	12	2
Union	62	4	18	3
Walthall	46	0	0	0
Warren	133	4	34	2
Washington	123	4	5	1
Wayne	39	0	3	0
Webster	22	1	0	0
Wilkinson	78	9	5	2
Winston	83	0	0	0
Yalobusha	73	1	24	1
Yazoo	190	2	7	0
Total	11,432	528	1,489	254

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

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