By all accounts, last week was an ugly one in Mississippi’s battle against the COVID-19 coronavirus as new case numbers skyrocketed.

Week over week, the high number of new COVID-19 cases caused the total case volumes to rise by more than 19% across the state. Each of Mississippi’s 82 counties saw an increase in new cases over the prior week, using data provided by the Mississippi State Department of Health Monday and the prior Monday.

In several counties, particularly in some of Mississippi’s most rural areas, the percentages of growth were extremely high.

Issaquena County with a population of approximately 1,300 had managed to avoid having any resident infected with the virus until last week when six people were confirmed to have COVID-19.

Neighboring Sharkey County also saw a dramatic rise in cases – 84.6% week over week.

Grenada County saw 82.1% growth over the same period.

In total, Mississippi recorded an additional 4,280 new cases last week, a dramatic increase over the prior several weeks. By comparison, the weekly average of new confirmed cases from May 1 through June 22 was just above 2,000 cases per week.

Here’s a county-by-county look at case growth, week over week:

County	Current week	Prior week	New cases last week	New case growth %
Adams	253	232	21	9.1%
Alcorn	53	35	18	51.4%
Amite	80	75	5	6.7%
Attala	347	336	11	3.3%
Benton	27	20	7	35.0%
Bolivar	254	208	46	22.1%
Calhoun	114	96	18	18.8%
Carroll	149	133	16	12.0%
Chickasaw	246	196	50	25.5%
Choctaw	71	65	6	9.2%
Claiborne	220	168	52	31.0%
Clarke	196	182	14	7.7%
Clay	237	210	27	12.9%
Coahoma	180	161	19	11.8%
Copiah	558	476	82	17.2%
Covington	269	238	31	13.0%
Desoto	1293	912	381	41.8%
Forrest	786	729	57	7.8%
Franklin	35	30	5	16.7%
George	72	53	19	35.8%
Greene	88	70	18	25.7%
Grenada	355	195	160	82.1%
Hancock	120	103	17	16.5%
Harrison	688	464	224	48.3%
Hinds	2048	1,536	512	33.3%
Holmes	514	489	25	5.1%
Humphreys	115	93	22	23.7%
Issaquena	6	–	6
Itawamba	119	109	10	9.2%
Jackson	493	402	91	22.6%
Jasper	239	212	27	12.7%
Jefferson	83	63	20	31.7%
Jefferson Davis	102	90	12	13.3%
Jones	1033	928	105	11.3%
Kemper	172	168	4	2.4%
Lafayette	330	254	76	29.9%
Lamar	393	341	52	15.2%
Lauderdale	872	847	25	3.0%
Lawrence	149	129	20	15.5%
Leake	533	503	30	6.0%
Lee	460	374	86	23.0%
Leflore	455	420	35	8.3%
Lincoln	430	378	52	13.8%
Lowndes	438	384	54	14.1%
Madison	1181	995	186	18.7%
Marion	233	186	47	25.3%
Marshall	195	142	53	37.3%
Monroe	342	311	31	10.0%
Montgomery	112	104	8	7.7%
Neshoba	938	893	45	5.0%
Newton	329	323	6	1.9%
Noxubee	242	223	19	8.5%
Oktibbeha	477	420	57	13.6%
Panola	246	179	67	37.4%
Pearl River	237	226	11	4.9%
Perry	59	55	4	7.3%
Pike	347	278	69	24.8%
Pontotoc	203	128	75	58.6%
Prentiss	94	78	16	20.5%
Quitman	65	49	16	32.7%
Rankin	798	611	187	30.6%
Scott	733	700	33	4.7%
Sharkey	24	13	11	84.6%
Simpson	209	166	43	25.9%
Smith	203	187	16	8.6%
Stone	50	42	8	19.0%
Sunflower	247	155	92	59.4%
Tallahatchie	93	64	29	45.3%
Tate	242	182	60	33.0%
Tippah	119	106	13	12.3%
Tishomingo	61	52	9	17.3%
Tunica	88	76	12	15.8%
Union	166	128	38	29.7%
Walthall	168	133	35	26.3%
Warren	409	331	78	23.6%
Washington	427	302	125	41.4%
Wayne	509	434	75	17.3%
Webster	122	118	4	3.4%
Wilkinson	89	85	4	4.7%
Winston	230	178	52	29.2%
Yalobusha	151	132	19	14.4%
Yazoo	454	395	59	14.9%
Total	26567	22,287	4,280	19.2%