Where were the COVID-19 hot spots in Mississippi last week?
Published 4:16 pm Monday, June 8, 2020
For one Mississippi county, the incidence of new cases of COVID-19 virus cases last week was ten times greater than that of the state.
Wayne County saw an increase of 62 cases of COVID-19 — which equals to 30.5 new cases of the coronavirus for every 10,000 people between June 1 and June 7.
Comparatively, Mississippi as a whole saw an increase of 968 cases in the same period. The increase equals to approximately 3 new cases of COVID-19 per 10,000 Mississippi residents.
According to the Mississippi Department of Health numbers released Monday, 13 other counties experienced a incidence of new cases last week that was double or greater than that of the state.
Those counties are:
- Grenada County — 24 new cases — 11.4 new cases per 10,000 people
- Copiah County — 31 new cases — 10.9 new cases per 10,000 people
- Jones County — 73 new cases — 10.7 new cases per 10,000 people
- Greene County — 14 new cases — 10.3 new cases per 10,000 people
- Holmes County — 18 new cases — 10.2 new cases per 10,000 people
- Claiborne County — 9 new cases — 10 new cases per 10,000 people
- Noxubee County — 8 new cases — 7.6 new cases per 10,000 people
- Humphreys County — 6 new cases — 7.3 new cases per 10,000 people
- Yalobusha County — 9 new cases — 7.3 new cases per 10,000 people
- Walthall County — 10 new cases — 6.9 new cases per 10,000 people
- Jasper County — 11 new cases — 6.7 new cases per 10,000 people
- Neshoba County — 18 new cases — 6.2 new cases per 10,000 people
- Choctaw County — 5 new cases — 6.0 new cases per 10,000 people
Hinds County reported the highest increase in Mississippi COVID-19 cases last week with 88 new confirmed cases reported between June 1 and June 7.
The 10 Mississippi counties with the highest number of new cases between June 1 and June 7 are:
- Hinds County — 88 cases
- Jones County — 73 cases
- Wayne County — 62 cases
- Desoto County — 56 cases
- Madison County — 47 cases
- Copiah County — 31 cases
- Forrest County — 26 cases
- Lee County — 25 cases
- Grenada County — 24 cases
- Lowndes County — 24 cases
Four counties had zero additional cases of COVID-19 last week. They are Franklin, Quitman, Sharkey and Wilkinson Counties.
Here is a county-by-county look at the change in cases for June 1-June 7:
| County | Cases (June 1-June 7) | Cases per 10,000 (June 1-June 7) | Cases to Date | Percent Change |
| GREENE | 14 | 10.3 | 47 | 42% |
| WAYNE | 62 | 30.5 | 328 | 23% |
| GRENADA | 24 | 11.4 | 127 | 23% |
| PONTOTOC | 9 | 2.8 | 60 | 18% |
| PANOLA | 15 | 4.4 | 102 | 17% |
| WALTHALL | 10 | 6.9 | 76 | 15% |
| BENTON | 2 | 2.4 | 16 | 14% |
| TALLAHATCHIE | 4 | 2.9 | 35 | 13% |
| LEE | 25 | 2.9 | 237 | 12% |
| TATE | 10 | 3.5 | 103 | 11% |
| JONES | 73 | 10.7 | 777 | 10% |
| DESOTO | 56 | 3.1 | 633 | 10% |
| COPIAH | 31 | 10.9 | 357 | 10% |
| LOWNDES | 24 | 4.1 | 274 | 10% |
| PRENTISS | 5 | 2.0 | 57 | 10% |
| ALCORN | 2 | 0.5 | 22 | 10% |
| ADAMS | 18 | 5.8 | 222 | 9% |
| WARREN | 17 | 3.7 | 214 | 9% |
| LAFAYETTE | 13 | 2.4 | 157 | 9% |
| MARION | 10 | 4.1 | 127 | 9% |
| MARSHALL | 8 | 2.3 | 93 | 9% |
| HUMPHREYS | 6 | 7.3 | 74 | 9% |
| CHOCTAW | 5 | 6.0 | 58 | 9% |
| HINDS | 88 | 3.7 | 1164 | 8% |
| OKTIBBEHA | 23 | 4.6 | 300 | 8% |
| CLAIBORNE | 9 | 10.0 | 127 | 8% |
| YALOBUSHA | 9 | 7.3 | 121 | 8% |
| SUNFLOWER | 8 | 3.1 | 103 | 8% |
| TISHOMINGO | 3 | 1.5 | 41 | 8% |
| HARRISON | 18 | 0.9 | 288 | 7% |
| CALHOUN | 5 | 3.5 | 72 | 7% |
| MADISON | 47 | 4.5 | 807 | 6% |
| JACKSON | 18 | 1.3 | 329 | 6% |
| LINCOLN | 16 | 4.7 | 300 | 6% |
| JASPER | 11 | 6.7 | 184 | 6% |
| CHICKASAW | 8 | 4.7 | 153 | 6% |
| WINSTON | 8 | 4.4 | 136 | 6% |
| CLAY | 7 | 3.6 | 134 | 6% |
| TIPPAH | 5 | 2.3 | 84 | 6% |
| JEFFERSON | 3 | 4.2 | 50 | 6% |
| STONE | 2 | 1.1 | 34 | 6% |
| RANKIN | 21 | 1.4 | 485 | 5% |
| SIMPSON | 5 | 1.9 | 108 | 5% |
| FORREST | 26 | 3.5 | 635 | 4% |
| HOLMES | 18 | 10.2 | 461 | 4% |
| YAZOO | 12 | 4.3 | 310 | 4% |
| LEFLORE | 11 | 3.8 | 309 | 4% |
| NOXUBEE | 8 | 7.6 | 204 | 4% |
| COAHOMA | 5 | 2.2 | 139 | 4% |
| JEFFERSON DAVIS | 3 | 2.7 | 85 | 4% |
| PIKE | 6 | 1.5 | 211 | 3% |
| CLARKE | 5 | 3.2 | 163 | 3% |
| KEMPER | 5 | 5.0 | 163 | 3% |
| HANCOCK | 3 | 0.6 | 93 | 3% |
| ITAWAMBA | 3 | 1.3 | 92 | 3% |
| WEBSTER | 3 | 3.1 | 98 | 3% |
| AMITE | 2 | 1.6 | 66 | 3% |
| GEORGE | 1 | 0.4 | 31 | 3% |
| NESHOBA | 18 | 6.2 | 772 | 2% |
| LAMAR | 5 | 0.8 | 262 | 2% |
| BOLIVAR | 4 | 1.3 | 176 | 2% |
| COVINGTON | 4 | 2.1 | 190 | 2% |
| SMITH | 4 | 2.5 | 168 | 2% |
| WASHINGTON | 4 | 0.9 | 215 | 2% |
| CARROLL | 2 | 2.0 | 120 | 2% |
| MONTGOMERY | 2 | 2.0 | 86 | 2% |
| UNION | 2 | 0.7 | 92 | 2% |
| PERRY | 1 | 0.8 | 52 | 2% |
| TUNICA | 1 | 1.0 | 58 | 2% |
| LAUDERDALE | 7 | 0.9 | 785 | 1% |
| LEAKE | 6 | 2.6 | 466 | 1% |
| SCOTT | 5 | 1.8 | 673 | 1% |
| ATTALA | 4 | 2.2 | 317 | 1% |
| MONROE | 4 | 1.1 | 280 | 1% |
| NEWTON | 4 | 1.9 | 301 | 1% |
| PEARL RIVER | 3 | 0.5 | 217 | 1% |
| LAWRENCE | 1 | 0.8 | 109 | 1% |
| FRANKLIN | 0 | 0.0 | 29 | 0% |
| QUITMAN | 0 | 0.0 | 32 | 0% |
| SHARKEY | 0 | 0.0 | 7 | 0% |
| WILKINSON | 0 | 0.0 | 85 | 0% |
