More than 50 Mississippians died of the COVID-19 coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the state reported Friday. It was the single deadliest day in Mississippi’s fight with virus and ended a month of statistics that seemed to get worse with each new day.

The state reported 1,168 new coronavirus cases and 52 more deaths from the prior day, the Mississippi State Health Department reported.

Friday’s report capped easily the worst month in the pandemic with Mississippi’s case load doubling in a single month and the death toll increasing by more than one-third.

The number of hospitalized confirmed COVID-19 coronavirus patients remained at near-record levels Friday, and the 14-day, daily new case average broke the previous record as well.

Mississippi State Department of Health officials reported a record high 989 confirmed COVID-19 patients were hospitalized with another 240 suspected COVID patients in hospitals across the state.

The state reported 297 patients were in ICU beds with 176 requiring a ventilator, also a new record.

In total, 58,747 cases have been found in the state. The state believes more than 35,000 of those cases have recovered.

A total of 1,663 people in Mississippi have died as a result of coronavirus.

The 7-day, daily average of new cases dropped slightly to 1,298.

The 14-day, daily average rose again to a new record, 1,280 cases per day a new record. The 14-day, daily average has set a new record each day for more than two weeks.

Totals of all reported COVID-19 cases for 2020, including those in long-term care (LTC) facilities.

The numbers in this table are provisional. County case numbers and deaths may change as investigation finds new or additional information. The data provided below is the most current available.

County	Total Cases	Total Deaths	Total LTC Facility Cases	Total LTC Facility Deaths
Adams	565	23	45	12
Alcorn	335	3	1	1
Amite	193	4	13	2
Attala	486	23	89	19
Benton	118	0	1	0
Bolivar	917	32	47	9
Calhoun	366	8	23	4
Carroll	240	11	45	9
Chickasaw	420	19	35	11
Choctaw	124	4	0	0
Claiborne	398	12	43	9
Clarke	297	25	19	9
Clay	363	14	2	1
Coahoma	632	10	4	2
Copiah	897	23	30	3
Covington	575	11	4	1
De Soto	3113	26	39	6
Forrest	1564	50	98	30
Franklin	111	3	3	1
George	525	5	1	0
Greene	223	11	35	6
Grenada	796	20	71	11
Hancock	323	14	8	4
Harrison	2048	31	124	14
Hinds	5091	102	231	45
Holmes	825	46	97	20
Humphreys	262	11	19	6
Issaquena	20	1	0	0
Itawamba	297	10	34	7
Jackson	1837	34	68	7
Jasper	368	8	1	0
Jefferson	188	6	4	1
Jefferson Davis	191	5	3	1
Jones	1705	57	168	35
Kemper	223	15	38	9
Lafayette	837	7	66	3
Lamar	1080	12	3	2
Lauderdale	1316	88	204	56
Lawrence	300	5	14	0
Leake	755	25	5	0
Lee	1162	29	66	15
Leflore	814	59	184	42
Lincoln	730	38	115	27
Lowndes	941	30	64	16
Madison	2250	50	169	23
Marion	581	17	15	2
Marshall	536	8	12	1
Monroe	675	50	126	41
Montgomery	276	3	0	0
Neshoba	1186	87	107	35
Newton	514	11	8	1
Noxubee	411	10	16	3
Oktibbeha	1039	34	153	22
Panola	877	11	5	1
Pearl River	471	36	53	14
Perry	209	7	0	0
Pike	808	30	67	14
Pontotoc	699	7	4	1
Prentiss	318	6	24	3
Quitman	211	1	0	0
Rankin	2091	28	86	9
Scott	947	17	15	3
Sharkey	139	1	6	1
Simpson	696	24	14	10
Smith	367	12	54	8
Stone	144	3	2	1
Sunflower	893	21	11	1
Tallahatchie	399	10	7	2
Tate	621	21	31	11
Tippah	285	12	0	0
Tishomingo	299	3	2	0
Tunica	228	5	12	2
Union	503	13	20	8
Walthall	425	18	57	9
Warren	946	25	80	11
Washington	1419	32	38	9
Wayne	729	21	56	10
Webster	181	12	52	11
Wilkinson	178	12	8	2
Winston	560	14	40	10
Yalobusha	308	10	35	7
Yazoo	757	11	21	2
Total	58,747	1,663	3,570	744