After hoving at record levels over the last week, Mississippi’s daily 7-day average of new COVID-19 coronavirus cases fell to a more than two-week low Saturday.

The Mississippi State Department of Health reported an additional 265 new cases were confirmed in the last 24 hours bringing the total cases to 17,034.

The state announced Saturday 8 new deaths were attributed to the virus bringing the total death toll to 811.

Mississippi’s 7-day average of new cases dropped to 258 per day. The record high of the 7-day average of new cases is 328 and was set on Monday.

The 14-day average of daily new cases decreased slightly Saturday to 288 cases per day.

Mississippi’s death toll from coronavirus includes 419 people from long-term care facilities or 52 percent of the total deaths.

Here are the county by county numbers:

County	Total Cases	Total Deaths	Total LTC Facility Cases	Total LTC Facility Deaths
Adams	203	16	43	9
Alcorn	20	1	0	0
Amite	65	1	12	1
Attala	315	18	89	15
Benton	15	0	1	0
Bolivar	170	11	17	4
Calhoun	68	4	23	4
Carroll	119	11	45	9
Chickasaw	146	14	35	9
Choctaw	52	2	0	0
Claiborne	119	5	41	4
Clarke	157	19	17	8
Clay	130	4	0	0
Coahoma	132	4	0	0
Copiah	337	4	0	0
Covington	186	2	1	0
Desoto	605	11	18	4
Forrest	607	39	92	28
Franklin	29	2	3	1
George	30	2	1	0
Greene	36	1	13	0
Grenada	112	4	16	2
Hancock	92	12	8	3
Harrison	274	7	3	2
Hinds	1111	26	84	13
Holmes	444	31	86	15
Humphreys	69	7	17	5
Issaquena	0	0	0	0
Itawamba	89	8	33	7
Jackson	317	15	38	5
Jasper	175	4	0	0
Jefferson	46	1	0	0
Jefferson Davis	84	3	4	1
Jones	715	34	107	21
Kemper	159	11	36	7
Lafayette	155	4	40	1
Lamar	254	5	3	2
Lauderdale	775	70	177	45
Lawrence	108	1	0	0
Leake	460	12	2	0
Lee	220	8	26	2
Leflore	287	39	95	25
Lincoln	286	32	92	25
Lowndes	263	9	19	5
Madison	788	29	100	15
Marion	117	9	15	2
Marshall	89	3	0	0
Monroe	273	25	92	22
Montgomery	85	1	0	0
Neshoba	747	45	69	22
Newton	297	4	4	0
Noxubee	196	6	15	3
Oktibbeha	290	16	93	13
Panola	93	3	0	0
Pearl River	213	31	46	11
Perry	51	3	0	0
Pike	204	11	14	6
Pontotoc	52	3	3	1
Prentiss	55	3	21	3
Quitman	32	0	0	0
Rankin	473	9	3	0
Scott	670	12	13	2
Sharkey	7	0	0	0
Simpson	104	0	2	0
Smith	164	11	51	8
Stone	32	0	0	0
Sunflower	95	3	0	0
Tallahatchie	31	1	0	0
Tate	95	1	2	0
Tippah	79	11	0	0
Tishomingo	37	0	1	0
Tunica	57	3	12	2
Union	91	7	19	6
Walthall	70	0	0	0
Warren	201	10	37	7
Washington	200	8	7	1
Wayne	295	3	1	0
Webster	93	5	18	3
Wilkinson	85	9	5	2
Winston	125	1	0	0
Yalobusha	112	6	26	6
Yazoo	300	5	11	2
Total	17,034	811	2,017	419

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

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