Mississippi’s COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak worsened in the last week as new cases continued to grow rapidly, breaking more records.

Week over week, Mississippi’s coronavirus cases rose by more than 5,400 causing the total case volumes to rise by more than 17% across the state for the second-straight week.

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, the percentages of growth week over week were well above 40% including:

• Alcorn County with 56.3% growth
• Tallahatchie County with 43.8% growth.
• George County with 40.4% growth
• Simpson County with 40.2% growth.

In total, Mississippi recorded more than 5,400 new cases last week, a dramatic increase over the prior several weeks. The weekly average of new confirmed cases last week has doubled since mid-June.

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	367	313	54	17.3%
Alcorn	111	71	40	56.3%
Amite	111	91	20	22.0%
Attala	386	361	25	6.9%
Benton	47	38	9	23.7%
Bolivar	416	340	76	22.4%
Calhoun	170	132	38	28.8%
Carroll	183	166	17	10.2%
Chickasaw	302	279	23	8.2%
Choctaw	76	74	2	2.7%
Claiborne	315	279	36	12.9%
Clarke	228	207	21	10.1%
Clay	262	251	11	4.4%
Coahoma	235	201	34	16.9%
Copiah	675	607	68	11.2%
Covington	450	359	91	25.3%
Desoto	2009	1,620	389	24.0%
Forrest	1043	878	165	18.8%
Franklin	57	45	12	26.7%
George	125	89	36	40.4%
Greene	116	105	11	10.5%
Grenada	625	490	135	27.6%
Hancock	152	130	22	16.9%
Harrison	1183	933	250	26.8%
Hinds	3041	2,536	505	19.9%
Holmes	598	557	41	7.4%
Humphreys	174	150	24	16.0%
Issaquena	11	9	2	22.2%
Itawamba	147	136	11	8.1%
Jackson	804	638	166	26.0%
Jasper	282	263	19	7.2%
Jefferson	137	108	29	26.9%
Jefferson Davis	125	112	13	11.6%
Jones	1231	1,128	103	9.1%
Kemper	184	179	5	2.8%
Lafayette	509	393	116	29.5%
Lamar	584	465	119	25.6%
Lauderdale	972	910	62	6.8%
Lawrence	216	178	38	21.3%
Leake	635	578	57	9.9%
Lee	630	552	78	14.1%
Leflore	539	491	48	9.8%
Lincoln	538	466	72	15.5%
Lowndes	549	494	55	11.1%
Madison	1508	1,314	194	14.8%
Marion	349	284	65	22.9%
Marshall	297	234	63	26.9%
Monroe	460	403	57	14.1%
Montgomery	186	135	51	37.8%
Neshoba	1045	992	53	5.3%
Newton	377	339	38	11.2%
Noxubee	279	267	12	4.5%
Oktibbeha	623	541	82	15.2%
Panola	461	352	109	31.0%
Pearl River	308	257	51	19.8%
Perry	91	67	24	35.8%
Pike	511	441	70	15.9%
Pontotoc	363	292	71	24.3%
Prentiss	127	108	19	17.6%
Quitman	101	78	23	29.5%
Rankin	1137	951	186	19.6%
Scott	831	773	58	7.5%
Sharkey	48	38	10	26.3%
Simpson	453	323	130	40.2%
Smith	256	218	38	17.4%
Stone	77	65	12	18.5%
Sunflower	505	400	105	26.3%
Tallahatchie	197	137	60	43.8%
Tate	395	288	107	37.2%
Tippah	147	131	16	12.2%
Tishomingo	109	83	26	31.3%
Tunica	126	105	21	20.0%
Union	256	210	46	21.9%
Walthall	274	204	70	34.3%
Warren	600	516	84	16.3%
Washington	753	591	162	27.4%
Wayne	568	545	23	4.2%
Webster	135	127	8	6.3%
Wilkinson	101	94	7	7.4%
Winston	302	266	36	13.5%
Yalobusha	208	173	35	20.2%
Yazoo	566	513	53	10.3%
Total	36680	31,257	5,423	17.3%