Mississippi State Health Department officials announced Sunday morning the highest, single-day spike in COVID-19 coronavirus cases since the state began tracking the outbreak last month.

State health officials reported 300 new confirmed cases of the virus Sunday, bringing the state’s total to 4,274 cases since March 11. It was the 11th day in a row the number of new cases rose by more than 100.

The state reported 7 more people died in the state over the last 24 hours due to the virus, bringing the state’s total number of deaths to 159.

State health officials are also now reporting racial breakdowns of both cases and deaths.

Black Mississippians make up 51.5% of all positive coronavirus cases. But blacks make up 63% of the deaths related to the virus.

The state also tracks the number cases found in long-term care facilities such as nursing homes that are considered high risk due to their residents being in close confines, often being older and often having underlying health issues.

For the sake of reporting, the state considers even a single case of coronavirus among staff or residents of these facilities as an “outbreak” and are tracked by county below.

Here are the county by county numbers:

County	Total Cases	Total Deaths	LTCs with Outbreaks
Adams	81	6	2
Alcorn	8	0	0
Amite	17	0 *	0
Attala	36	0	1
Benton	7	0	0
Bolivar	82	5	4
Calhoun	39	2	1
Carroll	14	1	0
Chickasaw	43	2	1
Choctaw	12	1	0
Claiborne	10	0	0
Clarke	27	2	1
Clay	25	1	0
Coahoma	48	2	0
Copiah	46	1	0
Covington	29	0	1
Desoto	234	3	1
Forrest	144	4	2
Franklin	16	0	0
George	10	1	0
Greene	3	0	0
Grenada	20	0	1
Hancock	52	5	2
Harrison	144	5	3
Hinds	337	5	5
Holmes	58	4	0
Humphreys	12	3	1
Itawamba	21	1	1
Jackson	205	6	2
Jasper	23	1	0
Jefferson	4	0	1
Jefferson Davis	8	1	0
Jones	70	0	2
Kemper	19	0	0
Lafayette	64	3	1
Lamar	67	1	0
Lauderdale	202	14	7
Lawrence	16	0	0
Leake	77	1	0
Lee	60	4	0
Leflore	91	7	1
Lincoln	101	6	2
Lowndes	32	1	2
Madison	135	4	2
Marion	43	1	1
Marshall	38	2	0
Monroe	68	5	2
Montgomery	15	1	0
Neshoba	65	2	0
Newton	26	0	1
Noxubee	22	0	0
Oktibbeha	43	2	2
Panola	35	2	0
Pearl River	126	10	2
Perry	22	1	0
Pike	104	2	2
Pontotoc	18	2	1
Prentiss	19	0	2
Quitman	13	0	0
Rankin	133	2	1
Scott	130	0	1
Sharkey	3	0	0
Simpson	21	0	1
Smith	45	1	1
Stone	18	0	0
Sunflower	47	2	0
Tallahatchie	8	1	0
Tate	31	0	0
Tippah	47	7	1
Tishomingo	4	0	0
Tunica	31	1	1
Union	11	1	1
Walthall	24	0	0
Warren	21	1	0
Washington	71	3	1
Wayne	11	0	0
Webster	15	1	0
Wilkinson	58	5 *	1
Winston	33	0	0
Yalobusha	15	0	0
Yazoo	91	1	0
Total	4,274	159	69

* One death previously reported in Amite County has been corrected to Wilkinson County.

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

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