Mississippi reported a near-record number of new cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus Friday.

The Mississippi State Department of Health reported an additional 402 new cases were confirmed in the last 24 hours bringing the total cases to 12,624.

The state announced Friday morning 16 new deaths were attributed to the virus bringing the total death toll to 596. Three of the deaths reported in Friday’s update actually occurred earlier, but were delayed in reporting.

Mississippi’s 14-day average of daily new cases dropped slightly to 252 cases per day with Friday’s updated statistics. The 7-day average of new cases increased to 260 per day.

The state reported that 300 deaths were of residents of long-term care facilities or approximately 50 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	180	15	39	8
Alcorn	15	1	0	0
Amite	49	1	7	1
Attala	269	12	79	12
Benton	13	0	1	0
Bolivar	134	10	17	4
Calhoun	60	4	23	4
Carroll	113	9	45	7
Chickasaw	125	12	34	8
Choctaw	29	2	0	0
Claiborne	58	1	2	0
Clarke	123	16	17	7
Clay	95	3	0	0
Coahoma	92	3	0	0
Copiah	259	4	0	0
Covington	125	1	1	0
Desoto	442	6	15	2
Forrest	462	32	84	22
Franklin	23	2	2	1
George	19	1	0	0
Greene	7	1	0	0
Grenada	68	2	14	2
Hancock	86	10	7	3
Harrison	230	6	2	1
Hinds	855	24	77	13
Holmes	343	22	72	11
Humphreys	50	6	16	4
Itawamba	81	7	34	6
Jackson	291	13	39	4
Jasper	131	3	0	0
Jefferson	40	0	0	0
Jefferson Davis	69	2	3	1
Jones	422	12	51	5
Kemper	116	10	26	6
Lafayette	116	3	37	0
Lamar	215	4	4	2
Lauderdale	647	51	162	32
Lawrence	82	1	1	0
Leake	373	8	1	0
Lee	99	5	8	1
Leflore	211	25	53	12
Lincoln	231	19	81	15
Lowndes	139	7	17	4
Madison	618	20	89	12
Marion	103	8	14	2
Marshall	68	3	2	0
Monroe	231	24	92	21
Montgomery	77	1	0	0
Neshoba	477	27	64	15
Newton	214	3	3	0
Noxubee	152	4	14	3
Oktibbeha	126	9	29	6
Panola	59	2	0	0
Pearl River	203	27	44	9
Perry	40	2	0	0
Pike	190	11	14	6
Pontotoc	26	2	3	0
Prentiss	37	3	22	3
Quitman	23	0	0	0
Rankin	325	6	5	0
Scott	578	10	13	2
Sharkey	7	0	0	0
Simpson	82	0	4	0
Smith	127	10	29	7
Stone	27	0	0	0
Sunflower	73	3	0	0
Tallahatchie	23	1	0	0
Tate	59	1	2	0
Tippah	69	11	0	0
Tishomingo	22	0	1	0
Tunica	47	2	12	2
Union	68	4	20	3
Walthall	50	0	0	0
Warren	144	6	34	4
Washington	143	4	7	1
Wayne	72	0	2	0
Webster	27	1	0	0
Wilkinson	81	9	5	2
Winston	92	0	0	0
Yalobusha	79	4	24	4
Yazoo	198	2	8	0
Total	12,624	596	1,627	300

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

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