The Mississippi State Department of Health’s latest statistics released Tuesday morning show the number of COVID-19 coronavirus jumped back up after Monday’s lowest daily death count in two weeks.

and reported that the number of patients hospitalized also improved dramatically.

On Tuesday morning, the state reported an additional 234 new cases has been confirmed in the last 24 hours bringing the total cases to 9,908. The state believes approximately 63 percent of the patients found to have coronavirus have recovered.

The state announced Tuesday morning 22 new deaths were attributed to the virus bringing the total death toll to 457. Seven of the deaths reported Tuesday actually occurred between April 25 and May 3, the state said.

The state reported that 208 deaths were of residents of long-term care facilities or more than 45 percent of all deaths in the state.

The seven-day average of new cases reported dropped to 244, and was at the lowest level in approximately one week.

Here are the county by county numbers:

County	Total Cases	Total Deaths	Total LTC Facility Cases	Total LTC Facility Deaths
Adams	161	15	39	8
Alcorn	11	1	0	0
Amite	38	0	1	0
Attala	205	5	60	5
Benton	14	0	1	0
Bolivar	120	9	16	3
Calhoun	58	4	23	4
Carroll	105	4	45	3
Chickasaw	94	10	25	6
Choctaw	16	2	0	0
Claiborne	41	0	0	0
Clarke	87	9	14	4
Clay	68	3	0	0
Coahoma	72	3	0	0
Copiah	165	1	1	0
Covington	100	1	2	1
Desoto	346	5	1	1
Forrest	331	23	52	12
Franklin	19	1	1	0
George	15	1	0	0
Greene	6	1	0	0
Grenada	52	2	14	2
Hancock	74	10	6	3
Harrison	201	6	1	1
Hinds	681	17	62	10
Holmes	224	19	41	9
Humphreys	38	4	8	2
Itawamba	70	7	33	6
Jackson	276	13	39	4
Jasper	92	2	0	0
Jefferson	32	0	0	0
Jefferson Davis	58	1	2	0
Jones	260	6	31	1
Kemper	97	7	23	4
Lafayette	101	3	36	0
Lamar	156	4	3	2
Lauderdale	501	45	121	26
Lawrence	70	0	1	0
Leake	318	4	0	0
Lee	81	4	5	0
Leflore	191	20	46	10
Lincoln	189	14	65	10
Lowndes	91	3	7	2
Madison	491	13	58	10
Marion	84	7	14	2
Marshall	58	2	0	0
Monroe	202	21	92	19
Montgomery	69	1	0	0
Neshoba	326	16	32	6
Newton	147	1	1	0
Noxubee	117	2	9	2
Oktibbeha	91	5	27	3
Panola	45	2	0	0
Pearl River	190	25	42	7
Perry	35	1	0	0
Pike	173	10	14	5
Pontotoc	23	2	3	0
Prentiss	36	2	22	2
Quitman	17	0	0	0
Rankin	256	6	6	0
Scott	475	6	9	1
Sharkey	5	0	0	0
Simpson	63	0	2	0
Smith	105	7	26	4
Stone	23	0	0	0
Sunflower	64	3	0	0
Tallahatchie	13	1	0	0
Tate	54	0	2	0
Tippah	66	11	0	0
Tishomingo	10	0	1	0
Tunica	40	2	12	2
Union	54	4	15	3
Walthall	42	0	0	0
Warren	122	2	12	0
Washington	86	4	4	1
Wayne	29	0	2	0
Webster	22	1	0	0
Wilkinson	78	9	5	2
Winston	67	0	0	0
Yalobusha	36	0	1	0
Yazoo	169	2	3	0
Total	9,908	457	1,239	208

 

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

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